Disruption: Highway to Nowhere and Eroding History Screening
Thursday, February 22nd | 6 pm to 8 pm

Join the Museum for a screening of the documentaries Disruption: Highway to Nowhere and Eroding History and a panel discussion with the films’ producers and policy makers as they consider the equalizing factor of environmental injustice and its impacts on Black Marylanders in urban and rural settings. Produced by journalist and documentarian Sean Yoes, Disruption: Highway to Nowhere explores Baltimore’s infamous Highway 40 and the damage its construction wrought upon West Baltimore, once considered one of several of America’s most vibrant Black communities that were irreparably disrupted and damaged by 20th century federal highway projects.

Eroding History tells the story of two Black communities on Deal Island, on Maryland’s Eastern Shore, that are finding themselves at the intersection of sea level rise, historic racism, and the disappearance of Black communities. It is a climate justice story, made by two Black filmmakers – Yoes and Andre Chung – and a Jewish grandchild of refugees, Rona Kobell. A deeply personal and moving story of a community striving to hold on to its culture, Eroding History is anything but dry.

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