The Town of Chapel Hill’s Justice in Action Committee will host a community viewing and discussion of A Class Divided at 7 tonight (Thursday) in the Council Chamber at the Chapel Hill Town Hall.
The event is the first in a series of outreach events designed to engage the community in open and frank conversations about race relations in Chapel Hill. The committee is planning a Unity in Heritage Festival for the fall, as well as a Martin Luther King Jr. Day Celebration in spring 2009.
A Class Divided is a documentary about third-grade teacher Jane Elliott’s “blue eyes-brown eyes†exercise, originally conducted in the days following the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. in 1968. Jan Boxill, director of the Parr Center for Ethics at UNC, will help facilitate a discussion about how these issues are relevant today to residents of Chapel Hill.
Refreshments will be provided. For more information, contact André Wessen at 843-8917 or Boxill at 962-3317.