Our Mockingbird: Film Screening and Discussion
Our
Mockingbird is a one-hour documentary about how
Harper Lee’s 1960 novel,
To Kill a Mockingbird, still resonates in our national discourse about race, class and justice. Among the lawyers, writers, journalists, actors, teachers and activists who appear in the film are
Harvard Law School’s
Charles Ogletree,
Congressman John Lewis, and
Katie Couric as well as Pulitzer Prize-winning author
Diane McWhorter, who will join the director,
Sandra Jaffe, in conversation after the screening.
Woven through Our Mockingbird is the story of two high schools in
Birmingham, Alabama, one all-black and one all-white, collaborating on a play adapted from
To Kill A Mockingbird. Our Mockingbird had its national broadcast premiere in
February 2015 on
America ReFramed, a documentary series on
PBS.
Post-film d
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