Join us November 5 for the Second Sara Lennox Lecture in Black German Studies with Katharina Warda: Angela Davis & Black Power in East Germany
November 5 at 6:15pm | ILC S 240 UMass Amherst
In the 1970s, an enthusiastic solidarity movement for Black civil rights activist Angela Davis emerges in the GDR. She attracts tens of thousands of people during her visits to the country. But all this enthusiasm is deceptive. In Our Sister Angela co-director Katharina Warda tells this often-overlooked piece of Black East German history from her personal perspective.
With featured screenings from the DEFA Film Library: Für Angela (1972, directed by Werner Kohlhert), Der Augenzeuge (1973), We Shall Overcome (1971, directed by Hans Goldschmidt)
Hosted by UMass German & Scandinavian Studies and the DEFA Film Library
With thanks to our generous sponsors
- UMass Amherst Women for UMass
- Five College Lecture Fund
- Smith College German Studies
- UMass Office of Professional Development Mutual Mentoring Grant
- UMass Interdepartmental Film Studies Program
- UMass W.E.B. Du Bois Center
- UMass W.E.B. Du Bois Department of Afro-American Studies
- Amherst College German
