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    Shared Legacies

    Poster of the movie Shared Legacies
    2020     Documentary    
    USA
    1h 35min

    This potent and utterly fascinating call to arms deeply explores the alliance between African Americans and Jewish Americans dating back to the 1909 founding of the NAACP. Director Shari Rogers shows how this union originated in a mutual recognition of the suffering of segregation, violence, and bigotry, but she also highlights how the relationship has frayed in recent years. The film features archival footage and recent interviews with leaders, witnesses, and activists, including the late great Congressman John Lewis, UN Ambassador Andrew Young, the scholar Susannah Heschel, and many others. This potent and inspiring story of unity, empathy, and partnership validates the universality of the human experience, and reminds us how freedom and equality for all can be achieved only when people come together.

    Directed byShari Rogers
    Written byShoshana Koper Janer, Shari Rogers

    Featuring

    William G. Anderson
    William J. Barber II
    Gina Belafonte
    Harry Belafonte
    Michael Berenbaum
    Peter S. Berg
    Saul Berman
    Traci Blackmon
    Janice Rothschild Blumberg
    Heather Booth
    Eugene Borowitz
    Cornell William Brooks
    Lonnie Bunch
    Xernona Clayton
    John Conyers
    Israel Dresner
    Gerald Durley
    Michael Eric Dyson
    Fred Ferber
    Kenneth J. Flowers
    Sherry Frank
    Capers Funnye
    Everett Gendler
    David Goodman
    John Hammond
    Tiffany Harris
    Bruce Hartford
    Frederick D. Haynes III
    + MORE

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