Diversity Day Group: Discuss the movie Just Mercy (Online)

Program Type:

Book Clubs, Community Events, Race, Equity & Inclusion

Age Group:

Adults
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Event Details

In celebration of National Diversity Awareness Month, the Howard County Office of Human Rights & Equity is partnering with the Howard County Library System to host a book discussion series. The goal of this discussion series is to explore and facilitate multiple conversations around race, belonging, immigration, dispossession, and the lived experience of the socially invisible through narrative. 

Watch the film Just Mercy based on the book by Bryan Stevenson on your own schedule, then join us for a group discussion. This session will meet online via Zoom. Please register with an email address to receive an immediate registration confirmation with a link to join the discussion. This email will also contain the dial-in information if you wish to participate by telephone.

Just Mercy 

After graduating from Harvard, Bryan Stevenson heads to Alabama to defend those who are wrongly condemned or those not afforded proper representation. One of his first cases is that of Walter McMillian, who is sentenced to die in 1987 for the murder of an 18-year-old girl, despite evidence proving his innocence. In the years that follow, Stevenson encounters racism and legal and political maneuverings as he tirelessly fights for McMillian's life.

Registered customers should place a hold request on the DVD title using their library card in order to receive a copy to watch before the discussion. Availability of books/DVD is not guaranteed. Place Hold.

 

This series is comprised of three simultaneous events. Pick the discussion you wish to attend. There is separate registration for each discussion.

October 26: 6:30 - 7:45 pm - Discuss Homeland Elegies by Ayad Akhtar @ HCLS, Central Branch IN-PERSON Register

October 26: 6:30 - 7:45 pm - Discuss On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong @ HCLS, Miller Branch IN-PERSON Register

October 26: 6:30 - 7:45 pm - Discuss movie Just Mercy based on the book by Bryan Stevenson ONLINE Register

 

This event is part of the Brave Voices Brave Choices series.