Amilcar Shabazz to Moderate Talk on The Black Church at Massachusetts Multicultural Film Festival

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The Massachusetts Multicultural Film Festival (MMFF) at UMass Amherst will open its 28th edition, “Alliances,” with a conversation, “Telling Our Story, Singing Our Song: Preserving and Protecting Our Sacred Spaces in Dangerous Times,” with filmmakers Stacey L. Holman and Shayla Harris of PBS’s “The Black Church: This Is Our Story, This Is Our Song.”The speakers will be introduced and moderated by Amilcar Shabazz, professor in the W. E. B. Du Bois Department of Afro-American Studies.

This one-hour livestream event, 7:30 p.m. EST on Wednesday, Feb. 17, will include a Q&A with the filmmakers of the PBS series “The Black Church: This Is Our Story, This Is Our Song.”

Part one of the two-part, four-hour series will be available for on-demand streaming on Tuesday, Feb. 16 at 9 p.m. EST on PBS. 

The MMFF will include a video introduction to the series by Professor Amilcar Shabazz.

Following the livestream conversation and Q&A, part two of the series will be available at 9 p.m. EST on Wednesday, Feb. 17.

Visit the MMFF website for more information on the event.

In partnership with New England Public Media (NEPM).