Slavery By Another Name: THE DIALOGUE

A Benefit for NBAF
Thursday, July 12, 1012, 6P
Mason Murer Fine Art Gallery
Individual Tickets $50 l Host Committee Tickets $500
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The 2012 National Black Arts Festival opens with this special event with proceeds benefitting NBAF’s programs.  THE DIALOGUE takes a deep dive into the subject matter of Douglas A. Blackmon’s Pulitzer-Prize-winning book Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II.  Slavery by Another Name is a historical expose that presents evidence that slavery in the United States did not end with the Civil War, but continued with the forced labor of imprisoned African American men and women through the convict lease system used by southern states, local governments, white farmers, and corporations.  Guests will view Robert Morris’ exhibition inspired by Blackmon’s book, Slavery by Another Name: Paintings and Assemblages.  The documentary by filmmaker Sam Pollard will be showing throughout the gallery.

THE DIALOGUE will feature journalist and award-winning author Douglas A. Blackmon, Robert Claiborne Morris the Georgia visual artist whose work was inspired by the book and Sam Pollard Producer/Director of the PBS Documentary.

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ABOUT DOUGLAS A. BLACKMON
Wall Street Journal Bureau Chief Douglas A. Blackmon has written extensively about the quandary of race in America for over 20 years. In his latest work Slavery by Another Name, “Blackmon gives a groundbreaking and disturbing account of a sordid chapter in American history—the lease (essentially the sale) of convicts to ‘commercial interests’ between the end of the 19th century and well into the 20th”.  — Publishers Weekly, 11/5/07.

Blackmon is co-executive producer of the documentary film based on Slavery by Another Name.  Until 2011, Blackmon was the longtime chief of The Wall Street Journal’s Atlanta bureau and the paper’s Senior National Correspondent.  Prior to his work at The Wall Street Journal, Blackmon covered race and politics at the Atlanta Journal Constitution for seven years.

ABOUT ROBERT CLAIBORNE MORRIS
Inspired by Douglas A. Blackmon’s Pulitzer Prize-winning book Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II, Slavery by Another Name: Paintings and Assemblages by Robert Claiborne Morris showcases a collection of mixed media works created to “awaken complex emotions and promote reconciliation.”  Morris’ hope is that the series of overlapping mediums awakens complex emotions and promotes reconciliation.  Robert Claiborne Morris, a noted writer and public relations specialist, studied art at the Sidwell Friends School in Washington, D.C. and Tulane University in New Orleans.

ABOUT SAM POLLARD
Noted filmmaker, Sam Pollard, is Producer/Director of the PBS documentary Slavery by Another Name.  Pollard is the editor of the Edward Norton feature length documentary, By The People: The Election of Barack Obama, airing on HBO. He served as documentary producer of Blackside production’s Eyes on the Prize II: American at the Racial Crosswords, and Co-Executive Producer/Producer of I’ll Make Me a World: Stories of African-American Artists and Community. He directed Zora Neale Hurston: Jump at the Sun for American Masters. Pollard has also worked extensively on Spike Lee’s films, including When the Levees Broke. His productions have won multiple Emmy Awards, George Foster Peabody Awards, the George Polk Award, the NAACP Image Award, and the Pare Lorentz Award from the International Documentary Association. Pollard is also a Professor of Film Studies at the New York University Tisch School of the Arts.