Tell Them We Are Rising
UCR ARTSblock 3824 Main Street, Riverside, CA, United StatesFree Admission! A haven for Black intellectuals, artists and revolutionaries - and path of promise toward the American dream - Black colleges and universities have educated the architects of freedom movements and cultivated leaders in every field. They have been unapologetically Black for more than 150 years. For the first time ever, their story is […]
Race to Nowhere
UCR ARTSblock 3824 Main Street, Riverside, CA, United StatesFree Admission! Race to Nowhere is a film that calls us to challenge current thinking about how we prepare our children for success. Named by TakePart.com as one of “10 Education Documentaries You Don’t Want to Miss”, Race to Nowhere brings communities together to spark dialogue and galvanize change in America’s schools. Featuring the heartbreaking stories of students […]
Night School
UCR ARTSblock 3824 Main Street, Riverside, CA, United StatesFree Admission! Indianapolis has one of the lowest high school graduation rates in the country. For adult learners Greg, Melissa and Shynika, finally earning their high school diplomas could be a life-changing achievement. Emmy award-winning director Andrew Cohn’s absorbing documentary observes their individual pursuits, fraught with the challenges of daily life and the broader systemic […]
One of Us
UCR ARTSblock 3824 Main Street, Riverside, CA, United StatesFree Admission! One of Us explores the opaque world of Hasidic Judaism through a cadre of fascinating characters. Through unique and intimate access over the span of three years, acclaimed observational filmmakers Ewing and Grady delve into the lives of three brave individuals who have recently made the decision to leave the insular ultra-orthodox community at […]
The Noble Struggle of Amina Wadud
UCR ARTSblock 3824 Main Street, Riverside, CA, United StatesFree Admission! On March 18, 2005, Amina Wadud shocked the Islamic world by leading a mixed-gender Friday prayer congregation in New York. The Noble Struggle Of Amina Wadud is a fascinating and powerful portrait of this African-American Muslim woman who soon found herself the subject of much debate and Muslim juristic discourse. In defying 1400 years of […]
Breaking Silence
UCR ARTSblock 3824 Main Street, Riverside, CA, United StatesFree Admission! Three Muslim women share their stories of sexual assault—and, in a deeply personal way, they challenge the stigma that has long suppressed the voice of survivors. Throughout America, many Muslim communities persist in stigmatizing all discussion of sex-related subjects. Even though sexual assault and abuse are widespread, conversations about it are rare—and the […]
Mosque in Morgantown
UCR ARTSblock 3824 Main Street, Riverside, CA, United StatesFree Admission! Mosque In Morgantown follows one woman’s campaign for change against extremism in her West Virginia mosque, throwing the community into turmoil and raising questions that cut to the heart of American Islam. When former Wall Street Journal journalist and single mother Asra Q. Nomani returns from working in Pakistan to her hometown mosque in […]
Meet and Greet EJGLA Class XV
Carolyn E. Wylie Center 4164 Brockton Avenue, Riverside, CA, United StatesJoin us as we meet and greet the new Eleanor Jean Grier Leadership Academy class!
En el Séptimo Día (On the Seventh Day)
UCR ARTSblock 3824 Main Street, Riverside, CA, United StatesFree Admission! En El Séptimo Día (On The Seventh Day) is a fiction feature from director Jim McKay which follows a group of undocumented immigrants living in Sunset Park, Brooklyn over the course of seven days. Bicycle delivery guys, construction workers, dishwashers, deli workers, and cotton candy vendors, they work long hours six days a week […]
I Am Not Your Negro
UCR ARTSblock 3824 Main Street, Riverside, CA, United StatesFree Admission! I Am Not Your Negro is an examination of racism in America through the lens of James Baldwin’s unfinished book, Remember This House. Intended as an account of the lives of Medgar Evers, Malcolm X, and Martin Luther King, Jr., each of whom James Baldwin personally knew, only a 30-page manuscript of the book was ever […]
