Docuseek Presents: The Five Demands Live Virtual Panel
Essential documentary films for higher education
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"Eerily timely...puts the students' struggles for racial justice front and center."
The New York Times
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Docuseek is hosting a free one-hour live virtual panel with distinguished faculty from The City College of New York (CCNY), Brown University, and the University of Massachusetts Boston on Wednesday, March 13, 2024 at 10AM PST/12PM CST/1PM EST. Learn about issues related to equity, access, discrimination and race in higher education using THE FIVE DEMANDS, a riveting story about the student strike that changed the face of higher education.
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Docuseek is hosting a live virtual panel with distinguished guests in academia to discuss The Five Demands, a riveting story about the student strike that changed the face of higher education. The film uncovers the story of an explosive student takeover that took place over 50 years ago, and is directly relevant to today's urgent debates over educational equity, affirmative action, racial justice, and how history is taught.
Join this complimentary webinar for an opportunity to hear a panel of knowledgeable and committed professionals. Now, fifty years later, Americans are still debating, often with the very same language, whether race should be a factor in school admissions, and the relevance of diversity in higher education.
Specific topics will include:
- Disparities in the education system
- Social change movements of the past with contemporary activism
- Current efforts to broaden access to education
- Affirmative action and racial justice, both past and present
- Black and Puerto Rican history
- Culture, community and media bias
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Dr. Vanessa K. Valdés (Moderator) |
Dr. Vanessa K. Valdés is the Associate Provost for Community Engagement at The City College of New York. She engages with community leaders on issues and programs of mutual interest and benefit to the College. She is the former interim dean of Macaulay Honors College at CUNY and the former director of the Black Studies Program. A graduate of Yale and Vanderbilt Universities, and Professor of Spanish and Portuguese, her research interests focus on the cultural production of Black peoples throughout the Americas: the US and Latin America. |
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Mark R. Warren is professor of public policy and public affairs at the University of Massachusetts Boston. He is a sociologist and community engaged scholar who studies and works with community, parent and youth organizing groups seeking to promote racial equity, educational justice, and community liberation. Mark is the author of six books, and has also co-founded several networks promoting activist scholarship, community organizing, and education justice. He has won a number of awards, including a Guggenheim Fellowship, and is a Fellow of the American Educational Research Association. |
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Noliwe Rooks is Chair and Professor of Africana Studies at Brown University and the founding director of the Segrenomics Lab. Her work explores how race and gender are impacted by popular culture, social history and political life in the US. She works on the cultural and racial implications of beauty, fashion and adornment; race, capitalism and education, and the urban politics of food and cannabis production. Rooks has received research funding from the Ford Foundation and the Mellon Foundation, among others. She also lectures at colleges and universities in the US and is a regular contributor to The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Chronicle of Higher Education, Time and NPR.
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Mario Ramirez is Associate Dean and Chief Librarian at The City College of New York. Previously he served as head of special collections and archives at the California State University, Los Angeles. He also served for eight years as project archivist for the Center for Puerto Rican Studies at Hunter College, CUNY. He has a PhD in the Department of Information Studies from UCLA. His research focused on the documentation of human rights violations in El Salvador. Ramirez was a CLIR/DLF-Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Data Curation for Latin American and Caribbean Studies in the Digital Collections Department at Indiana University, Bloomington. Ramirez also spent close to a decade as an archivist in the Bancroft Library at the University of California, Berkeley. |
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In April 1969, a small group of Black and Puerto Rican students shut down The City College of New York, an elite public university located right in the heart of Harlem. Fueled by the revolutionary fervor sweeping the nation, the strike soon turned into an uprising, leading to the extended occupation of the campus, classes being canceled, students being arrested, and the resignation of the college president. Through archival footage and modern-day interviews, we follow the students’ struggle against the institutional racism that, for over a century, had shut out people of color from this and other public universities. Revisit this untold story of this explosive student takeover that proves a handful of ordinary citizens can band together to take action and effect meaningful change. |
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Docuseek streams essential independent, social-issue and environmental documentaries to colleges and universities, providing exclusive access to content from Bullfrog Films, Icarus Films (including The Fanlight Collection and dGenerate Films), Women Make Movies, Kartemquin Films, National Film Board of Canada, First Run Features, KimStim, First Hand Films, MediaStorm, Scorpion TV, Terra Nova Films, Viewpoint Productions, Film Movement, Deckert Distribution, The Films of Anand Patwardhan, Cinétévé, Tecolote Films, Strange Attractions, Clarity Films, AndanaFilms, 371 Productions, Dutch CORE, Autlook, Collective Eye Films, Distrib Films, Lightdox and GOOD DOCS. Licenses are available for single titles or collections for periods ranging from one year to Life of File. Interested in a trial for your campus? Contact Elena Wayne, Sales and Marketing Manager, 847-537-0606 or at ewayne@docuseek2.com.
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