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Two people walking on a path through tall grasses.

Erika Alexander and Jeffrey Wright in "American Fiction."

Justified Anger hosts three days of screenings featuring six documentaries and feature films, plus three video essays by cultural commentator F.D Signifier. Nov. 14 (10:15 a.m.-4 p.m., Goodman Community Center) includes A Thousand and One, writer-director A.V. Rockwell’s tale of a mother who rescues her son from the foster care system; it won the 2023 Dramatic Grand Jury Prize at Sundance. Nov. 15 (12:15-8:30 p.m., Fountain of Life) is highlighted by American Fiction, about an acclaimed but neglected novelist who gets more than he bargained for when writing a satirical tale that is taken as genuine by the literary establishment. Nov. 16 features a Zoom screening of the classic drag ball documentary Paris is Burning (10 a.m.), and at Lussier Community Education Center (11:30 a.m.), the documentary Cooked: Survival by Zip Code, about a deadly 1995 Chicago heat wave. Register and find the full schedule here.

media release: Please register to let us know you are coming. Please come when you can, there is no requirement to stay for the entire day.

Nov 14 (Held at The Goodman Community Center, 10:15am - 4pm)

• 10:30 am Riveted: The History of Jeans
• noon Black Cops Won't Save Us | F.D. Signifier 
• 1:30 pm A Thousand and One

Nov 15 (Held at Fountain of Life Covenant Church, 12:15pm - 8:30pm)

• 12:30 pm Swirlconomics | F.D. Signifier
• 2:30 pm Power of the Dream
• 4 pm The REAL faces of Black Conservatism | F.D. Signifier
• 6:30 pm  American Fiction

Nov 16 (On Zoom, Hosted by Queer Antiracist Allies (Justified Anger Alumni Group), 10am - Noon)

• Paris is Burning

Nov 16 (Held at Lussier Community Education Center, 11:30am - 2:30pm)

• COOKED: Survival by Zip Code