Free 'Movie Mondays' Featuring Pizza Kicks Off Next Week At BCCC

A free "Movie Mondays" series is returning to Bucks County Community College.

The free series kicks off this Monday, Feb. 20 when the film "The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross – Rise!” will be screened at 6:30 p.m.

Free pizza will be served at 6 p.m. and a panel discussion will follow the PBS documentary.

The screening, shown in honor of Black History Month, will be followed by a panel discussion led by Bucks professors Samantha Gross and Mark Cobb, who teach in the Social and Behavioral Sciences Department.

Here's more about Monday's film:

In this episode from the PBS series hosted by Harvard scholar Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Rise! examines the long road to civil rights from 1940 to 1968, when the deep contradictions in American society finally became unsustainable. Beginning in World War II, African Americans who helped fight fascism abroad came home to face the same old racial violence. But this time, mass media – from print to radio and TV – broadcast that injustice to the world, planting seeds of resistance. And the success of black entrepreneurs and entertainers fueled African-American hopes and dreams.

Movie Mondays, part of the Bucks Live! series of events presented by the college’s Cultural Affairs Committee, presents "thought-provoking films of vital interest to the community."

Admission to all films is free and each screening begins at 6:30 p.m. in the Kevin and Sima Zlock Performing Arts Center, located inside the Gateway Center on the campus at 275 Swamp Rd., Newtown.

Mark your calendar for the next Movie Mondays screening: on March 27, "Finding Jenn’s Voice" will be shown. Following the film, a discussion with filmmaker Tracy Schott and representatives of A Woman’s Place, a nonprofit dedicated to preventing domestic violence, will be held.

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