Regardless of your thoughts on the film or whether you believe the film deserved the recognition it received, there is no doubt that the Academy Award Best Picture winner of 2019 stirs up controversy.
Join us for an hour break during the workday to watch the new documentary by acclaimed filmmaker Yoruba Richen, The Green Book: Guide to Freedom. Learn more about the actual "Green Book" from where the fictionalized film borrows its name.
From the Smithsonian Channel:
In the 1930s, a black postal carrier from Harlem named Victor Green published a book that was part travel guide and part survival guide. It was called The Negro Motorist Green Book, and it helped African-Americans navigate safe passage across America well into the 1960s. Explore some of the segregated nation's safe havens and notorious "sundown towns" and witness stories of struggle and indignity as well as opportunity and triumph.
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