Tuesday, February 25, 2025 @ 7:00pm
"We Have Just Begun" is a new documentary about the 1919 Elaine riot, massacre, and dispossession, that sheds light on an obscured part of US race and labor history. The result of over seven years of investigation into the buried history and legacy of the Elaine massacre and disposition, this film explores the continuity of exploitation and domination in the Arkansas Delta from before 1919 to the present.
The film will be accompanied by a live narration done by Poet Laureate of San Francisco and co-writer Tongo Eisen-Martin, and live astral soul music by composer Joshua Asante. Following the film, there will be a discussion with filmmaker Michael Warren Wilson.
Free admission with valid Union College ID.
This event was made possible through collaboration with Proctors, and the generous support of the Modern Languages & Literatures Department, Political Science Department, Visual Arts Department, Africana Studies Program, Film Studies Program and the Templeton Institute.