BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 METHOD:PUBLISH PRODID:-//Missouri State University/Calendar of Events//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/Chicago BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Chicago BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 DTSTART:20070311T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=2SU TZNAME:CDT END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 DTSTART:20071104T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU TZNAME:CST END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1d484ad9-2011-4c3f-8160-1f13db399a61.184863@calendar.missouristate.edu CREATED:20180119T134726Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180119T134726Z LOCATION:Plaster Student Union\, Robert W. Theater SUMMARY:Strong Island Film Screening DESCRIPTION:AAAS presents the screening of Strong Island.\n\n\nIn April 19 92\, on Long Island\, NY\, William Jr.\, the Ford's eldest child\, a blac k 24 year-old teacher\, was killed by Mark Reilly\, a white 19 year-old m echanic. Although Ford was unarmed\, he became the prime suspect in his o wn murder. Director Yance Ford chronicles the arc of his family acorss hi story\, geography and tragedy - from the racial segregation of the Jim Cr ow South to the promise of New York City\; from the presumed safety of mi ddle class suburbs\, to the maelstrom of an unexpected\, violent death. I t is the story of the Ford family: Barbara Dunmore\, William Ford and the ir three children and how their lives were shaped by the eduring shadow o f racism in America.\n\n\nA deeply intimate and meditative film\, Strong Island asks what one can do when the grief of loss is entwined with histo rical injustice\, and how one grapples with the complicity of silence\, w hich can bind a family in an imitation of life\, and a nation with a fals e sense of justice. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:<html><head><title></title></head><body><p>AA AS presents the screening of <em>Strong Island</em>.</p>\n<p>In April 199 2\, on Long Island\, NY\, William Jr.\, the Ford's eldest child\, a black 24 year-old teacher\, was killed by Mark Reilly\, a white 19 year-old me chanic. Although Ford was unarmed\, he became the prime suspect in his ow n murder. Director Yance Ford chronicles the arc of his family acorss his tory\, geography and tragedy - from the racial segregation of the Jim Cro w South to the promise of New York City\; from the presumed safety of mid dle class suburbs\, to the maelstrom of an unexpected\, violent death. It is the story of the Ford family: Barbara Dunmore\, William Ford and thei r three children and how their lives were shaped by the eduring shadow of racism in America.</p>\n<p>A deeply intimate and meditative film\, <em>S trong Island</em> asks what one can do when the grief of loss is entwined with historical injustice\, and how one grapples with the complicity of silence\, which can bind a family in an imitation of life\, and a nation with a false sense of justice.</p></body></html> DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20180130T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20180130T210000 SEQUENCE:0 URL: CATEGORIES:Current Students,Faculty,Staff END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR