SPECIAL FEATURE FOR UMASS+5C AFRICANA STUDENTS
Feb. 15, 2018 * 6:45pm to 9:45pm
Hadley Cinemark Theater at Hampshire Mall
*Preceded by a commentary from Du Bois Dept. Faculty on Black Panther in relations to Re[pair]ations_Representation, AfricanaScienceFiction, & Afrofuturism*
The worldwide opening for Black Panther is Feb. 16th in the middle of Black History Month.
The Du Bois Department is a co-sponsor of an advanced screening with our students the night before the film is released to the general public. We’ve secured the 144-seat theater in Hadley Cinemark for this unique UMass/5 College screening.
- Arrival time is set for 6:45pm, Thursday, February 15th
- Pre-film Discussion led by Demetria & Amilcar Shabazz starts 7:00pm
- Show time is at 7:30pm
- Transportation on own [We encourage students to go with peers using the B43 PVTA bus]
- Partners (7): Harambee (DRC), Student Bridges, African Student Association (ASA), Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Incorporated (AKA), The W.E.B. Du Bois Department, Soul TV, and AALANAI Honors Society
Featured Pre-film Lightning Talks by: 
Teaching our Spring 2018 courses “Black 70s Film Representations” and “African American Television Studies.” Also, last fall, she taught “Digital Video Production & Research in the Black Community.
Du Bois Professor, AfroAm Dept. Chair, Black Liberation Theoretician, author of Advancing Democracy & more
Priority reservations for AfroAm majors and minors until Feb. 1. Contact Sharon Coney for details.
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A PechaKucha Night on the Black Panther movie and phenomena is being planned along with an Africana-STEM syllabus and an episode of the soon to be launched Africana Studies Today.
STAY TUNED! LONG LIVE THE KING!