September Black History Film Series – Remember Me: Dementia in the African American Community

226 N. Hackberry "The Little Carver", San Antonio, Texas 78202 226 N. Hackberry, San Antonio

The doors to The Little Carver open at 5:30pm, and the film begins at 6pm.   “Remember Me: Dementia in the African American Community” African Americans are twice as likely as their white counterparts to be diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease or another form of progressive dementia, and the numbers are expected to get worse in the coming years. What is dementia? Why is it disproportionately impacting black and brown communities? What are the risk factors? What can we do to reverse the trends? What is the role of the Black church? What is the impact on caregiving?   Immediately following...

October Black History Film Series – Brother Outsider: The Life Of Bayard Rustin

226 N. Hackberry "The Little Carver", San Antonio, Texas 78202 226 N. Hackberry, San Antonio

The doors to The Little Carver open at 5:30pm, and the film begins at 6pm.   “BROTHER OUTSIDER: THE LIFE OF BAYARD RUSTIN” asks "Why?" It presents a vivid drama, intermingling the personal and the political, about one of the most enigmatic figures in 20th-century American history. One of the first "freedom riders," an adviser to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and A. Philip Randolph, organizer of the March on Washington, intelligent, gregarious and charismatic, Bayard Rustin was denied his place in the limelight for one reason - he was gay.   Immediately following the film, join us for the...

November Black History Film Series – TheSixTripleEight

226 N. Hackberry "The Little Carver", San Antonio, Texas 78202 226 N. Hackberry, San Antonio

The doors to The Little Carver open at 5:30pm, and the film begins at 6pm.   “TheSixTripleEight” In February 1945, the U.S. Army sent the Six Triple Eight, 855 women from the Women's Army Corps (WACs), to England and France to clear the backlog of mail in the European Theater of Operations. They were the only predominantly-Black female battalion to serve in Europe during WWII, and were confronted with racism and sexism from their own leadership and troops.   Immediately following the film, join us for the lively panel discussion. Brought to you in part by Humanities Texas.   ADMISSION...

December Black History Film Series – Brick By Brick: A Civil Rights Story

226 N. Hackberry "The Little Carver", San Antonio, Texas 78202 226 N. Hackberry, San Antonio

The doors to The Little Carver open at 5:30pm, and the film begins at 6pm.   “BRICK BY BRICK: A CIVIL RIGHTS STORY” shows that segregation has been as virulent and persistent in the North as in the South and that it too has resulted from deliberate public policies based in deep-rooted racial prejudice. The film uses the bitter struggle over equal housing rights in Yonkers, New York during the1980s to show the "massive resistance" the Civil Rights Movement confronted when it moved north. Brick by Brick is not only a brilliant legal history of one of the most important...