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We’re adapting our Film Friday events to the virtual world! Watch a remarkable foray into unexplored history and then join us for a virtual Q&A with its creator Professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. and duPont juror Mark Whitaker to celebrate Gates’ 2020 duPont Award winner, Reconstruction: America After the Civil War. 

Access the four-part documentary series in advance, presented by esteemed filmmaker and scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr., after you register for the event. Before you attend the Q & A, watch some or all of this epic immersion into the period of grief, uncertainty, and revolutionary social change that followed the American Civil War. 

Journalist and author Mark Whitaker joins Professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. to discuss the behind-the-scenes of making Reconstruction and what this work means at such a crucial moment, as the nation reckons with its legacy of slavery in the wake of the deaths of Geroge Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and Auhmed Aubrey, among others.