The Fight for Black Lives
2024 • Feature Documentary • 73 minutes
Runtime • 73 minutes
Competition • Features
Country • United States
Language • English
Genres • Social Justice
Screening Date & Time
Sunday, April 14, 2024 • 7:00pm
Screening Venue
Classic Cinemas Elk Grove XQ
1050 Elk Grove Town Center
Elk Grove Village, IL. 60007
Synopsis
The Fight for Black Lives chronicles the ways that racial stress and the American healthcare system disadvantages the health of Black Americans. This health disparity is traced back to emancipation, which increased the Black mortality rate, in part, because formerly enslaved people had no access to formal health care even when they could pay. The film shows that there is nothing new about the disproportionate rate of Black mortality that was associated with the COVID-19 pandemic by showing that on almost all measures of health Black people in the United states live sicker and die younger.
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Production Credits
Director
Micere Keels
Writer
Micere Keels
Producer
Micere Keels
Cinematographer
Ian Crowder, Curtis Boone
Key Cast
Melanie Brezill