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"Black Lives/Black Lungs" Documentary Screening and Discussion at Washington Park
Monday, June 17, 2024 - 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM
Audience: Adults/ Teens/ Older Adults
Categories: Exhibits/Displays, Arts & Culture
Join us as we welcome filmmaker Lincoln Mondy, who will screen his documentary, "Black Lives/Black Lungs: The Journey of a Stolen Leaf," and lead a discussion afterwards. The short film unravels the industry's forward-looking strategy of protecting profits, subverting regulations, and maintaining influence through the promotion of e-cigarettes to hook a new generation to nicotine.Same Game Different Smokers exhibition at Washington Park Branch Library (May 8-June 29): Same Game Different Smokers is an exploration of the troubling relationship the tobacco industry has had with the Black Community over the last 400+ years. A collection of archival ads and images are brought together to answer some extremely important questions. The exhibition interrogates the complex connection between increased demand for commercialized tobacco, the transatlantic slave trade, racialized advertising, targeted ad placement and the fact that 45,000 African Americans die every year from tobacco-related illness.Location: Finney Community Room
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