Virtual Screening - Mountains That Take Wing: Angela Y. Davis and Yuri Kochiyama
Join us for a film screening of Mountains That Take Wing: Angela Y. Davis and Yuri Kochiyama, A Conversation on Life, Struggles & Liberation. Internationally renowned scholar, professor and writer Angela Davis and 89-year-old grassroots organizer and Nobel Peace Prize nominee Yuri Kochiyama spent over a decade conversing intimately about personal histories and influences that shaped them and their overlapping experiences.
MOUNTAINS THAT TAKE WING offers the gift of these two remarkable women’s lives, sharing the pair’s recorded exchanges in 1996 and 2008. The film’s unique format honors the scope and depth of their knowledge on topics ranging from Jim Crow laws and Japanese American internment camps, to Civil Rights, anti-war, women’s and gay liberation movements, to today’s campaigns for political prisoners and prison reform. Intercut with compelling period footage, Davis and Kochiyama’s cogent observations, keen analyses, and steadfast resolve to create a more equitable, humane world offer inspiring lessons in empowerment and community building for current and future generations.
The screening will be followed by a conversation between feminist activist Jillian Montilla and =SPACE community manager Kelly Outing, moderated by Taliyah Williams, an emerging public health scholar specializing in racial healthcare disparities.
This program is organized in collaboration with Women in Media-Newark and Paul Robeson Galleries at Rutgers-Newark.