WITHIN OUR GATES screening with live music

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Don't miss the screening with live music of WITHIN OUR GATES, the oldest surviving feature film directed by an African-American, Oscar Micheaux, as a response to the premiere of “The Birth of a Nation”, DW Griffith's racist film.⁣ ⁣ ⁣⁣

“Within Our Gates” tells the story of a young black woman who fights to prevent the closure of a school for children without resources.⁣⁣