An Evening With Sam Pollard Free Screening of Lowndes County and the Road to Black Power

Friday, May 3 | 6:30 pm to 8 pm | FREE EVENT

Join the Reginald F. Lewis Museum and Black Public Media with a film screening and conversation with award winning filmmaker Sam Pollard. With a career spanning over forty years, this multiple Emmy- and Peabody Award-winning producer-director-editor, Pollard is known for his work on a plethora of important works including:

• The League and Bill Russell: Legend (2023)
• Lowndes County and the Road to Black Power (2022)
• MLK/FBI (2020)
• Maynard (2017)
• Eyes On The Prize (1987)
• Spike Lee’s Mo’ Better Blues (1990), Jungle Fever (1991), Clockers (1995);Girl 6 (1996),  Four Little Girls (1997) and Bamboozled (2000)  – Served as Editor

Filmgoers will enjoy a screening of LOWNDES COUNTY AND THE ROAD TO BLACK POWER which through first-person accounts and searing archival footage,  tells the story of the local movement and young Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) organizers who fought not just for voting rights, but for Black Power in Lowndes County, Alabama.