94-01-28 Kathleen Cleaver, Filmmaker St. Clair Bourne to Speak at U.Va. During Black History Month

KATHLEEN CLEAVER, FILMMAKER ST. CLAIR BOURNE TO SPEAK AT U.VA.
DURING BLACK HISTORY MONTH
                                
     CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va., Jan. 28 -- Kathleen Cleaver, former member of the
Black
Panther Party in the 1960s, and noted filmmaker St. Clair Bourne will
participate in several events
during Black History Month at the University of Virginia in February.  All
events are free and open
to the public.
     On Thursday, Feb. 10 at 8 p.m. in Peabody Hall 106, Cleaver, currently
professor of law at
Emory University, will speak on "War, Women and Race:  How the Sixties
Changed Us."  A
reception will follow.
     On Friday, Feb. 11 at 11:30 a.m. at Luther P. Jackson House, an informal
lunchtime
discussion with Cleaver will be held.
     On Friday, Feb. 11 at 6 p.m. in Newcomb Hall Theatre, Bourne will
introduce a screening
of his film, "Langston Hughes:  The Dream Keeper."  A discussion will follow.
     On Saturday, Feb. 12 from noon to 4 p.m. in Clemons 201, a documentary
film workshop
with Bourne will be held.  Seating is limited.
     Kathleen Neal Cleaver, a native of Tuskegee, Alabama, grew up in Alabama
and Liberia,
where her father served in the State Department.  She worked in the New York
and Atlanta offices
of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) before joining the
central committee
of the Black Panther Party in 1967.  Cleaver lived in exile with her husband
Eldridge Cleaver from
1969 to 1975.  After returning to the United States, she completed her B.A.
degree in history,
summa cum laude, from Yale in 1984; she obtained her law degree from Yale in
1988.  Cleaver is
completing a memoir which she has been working on for the past decade.
     St. Clair Bourne is recognized as the founder of the African-American
documentary.  During
the past 25 years he has produced many award-making films, including "The
Making of `Do The
Right Thing.'"  His work has shaped people's perceptions of events during a
turbulent period in
African-American history.  He is presently working with National Geographic
on a film about
African-Americans in the West.
     Sponsors for these events include the Center for the Study of Civil
Rights, African-American
Affairs, the Women's Center, University Union, the History department, the
Virginia Foundation
for the Humanities, the Virginia Festival of American Film and Special
Lectures.
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                                                 January 27, 1994
     FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION, please contact Patricia Sullivan at (804)
924-3109.

[Submitted by: Karen A. Castle  (kac@uva.pcmail.virginia.edu)
               Mon, 31 Jan 94 12:45:10 EST]