Express Newark’s Community Media Center, in partnership with The Newark Museum of Art and the City of Newark, presents:
Why Is We Americans?(2020). Directed by Udi Aloni and Ayana Stafford-Morris. (102 min). Not rated.
Join us for a special screening and panel discussion.
Why Is We Americans? is an in-depth, cinematic exploration of Newark’s legendary Baraka family. As we connect with the iconoclastic poet Amiri Baraka, his wife, Amina, and their son, Ras, a portrait of a city emerges with an inspiring call to arms in the fight for class and racial justice.
Introduction by Junius Williams, city historian
Featured panelists:
Udi Aloni, filmmaker
Ayana Stafford-Morris, filmmaker
Amina Baraka, poet and activist
Moderator: Dr. Lacey P. Hunter, Instructor at Rutgers University, Newark, African American and African Studies Department