He is also co-authoring a forthcoming new book with former U.S. It has been rebroadcast thousands of times by PBS and local public television stations across the U.S.Ĭurrently, he is completing production of The Harvest, a new film examining the breakdown of racial progress since the 1960s as seen over 50 years through eyes of a group of children, including himself, born in one small Mississippi town in 1964. He was co-executive producer of the acclaimed documentary film version of Slavery by Another Name, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2012 and attracted more than five million viewers in its first broadcasts on PBS. His first book, Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II, was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction in 2009, became a New York Times bestseller and has been reprinted more than a dozen times. and is followed by a Q&A session both the talk and the Q&A will be available to those participating remotely.īlackmon is a Pulitzer-Prize winning writer and filmmaker. Reservations are required for both in-person and remote attendees.īlackmon’s keynote address begins at 10 a.m. The event is free to all, with in-person attendance available to the on-campus Hendrix community and remote participation open to the public. 11, 2021, in the Student Life and Technology Center on the Hendrix campus. Blackmon for “Dismantling Racism: Embracing a New Tomorrow,” Saturday, Sept. Hendrix College welcomes alumnus, writer, and filmmaker Douglas A.

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