Upcoming Film Screening: Black Russians (2001) by Kara Lynch
Join us for a film screening of Black Russians (2001), a feature length documentary by kara lynch.
On Sunday, October 3rd, 2021 from 6:30-8:00 PM EST, join us for a film screening of BLACK RUSSIANS (2001), a documentary by kara lynch that investigates the lives of contemporary Afro-Russians aged 10 to 65, born & raised in Soviet Russia.
You can register for the event here.
Watch the BLACK RUSSIANS trailer. Courtesy of Third World Newsreel.
About the documentary: BLACK RUSSIANS (2001) is a feature length documentary by kara lynch that investigates the lives of contemporary Afro-Russians aged 10 to 65, born and raised in Soviet Russia. Their experiences chronicle two ideological currents that have shaped major international events in the twentieth century: race and communism. Intimate interviews with a poet, a film producer, a reggae artist, a businessman and others, all Black and all Russian, guide us through this story of promise and non-discrimination. Archive images reveal rarely seen footage of Black political leaders in the Soviet Union, like Paul Robeson, Kwame Nkrumah and Angela Davis.
More than a decade after the 'fall of communism' a new Russia struggles to steady itself in the wave of nationalism from within and the pressures of global capitalism from without. “Black Russians” constructs a deeply personal account of the effects of political issues such as migration, identity and loss on a minority community in the vast remains of the Soviet Union.