An American Coup: Wilmington 1898

On Monday, November 18, 2024, documentary filmmaker Yoruba Richen will discuss American Coup: Wilmington 1898, a new American Experience PBS documentary directed by Richen and Brad Lichtenstein that examines a white supremacist massacre of Black residents of Wilmington, North Carolina. Richen, and others from the film, will be in conversation with Teaching for Black Lives co-editor Jesse Hagopian.

Yoruba Richen is the founding director of the documentary program at the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at the City University of New York. She is an award-winning documentary filmmaker. Her film The Rebellious Life of Mrs Rosa Parks premiered at Tribeca Film Festival and won a Peabody Award. The Zinn Education Project developed lessons to accompany the film. Her other films include The Cost of Inheritance and The Killing of Breonna Taylor.

These online classes with people’s historians are held at least once a month (generally on Mondays) at 4:00 pm PT / 7:00 pm ET for 90 minutes. In each session, the historian is interviewed by a teacher and breakout rooms allow participants to meet each other in small groups, discuss the content, and share teaching ideas. We designed the sessions for teachers and other school staff. Parents, students, and others are also welcome to participate.