Attend: Boston Globe Film Festival: JUBILEE, JUNETEENTH & THE THIRTEENTH

Now in its second year, The Boston Globe's Black History Month Film Festival will honor and celebrate the lives, culture, and creativity of Black Americans through film. Both classic and new works will be made available for virtual viewing throughout the month, with each film followed by a virtual panel discussion. Join Globe writers and editors, filmmakers, and talent for each weekly installment.

Jubilee Juneteenth and the Thirteenth accurately portrays the influential but often overlooked role that African Americans in Boston and Massachusetts played in the events that led to the abolition of slavery in the United States. It explores the importance of the African Meetinghouse, built by and for Black people in 1906 as Boston's first black church. It stands today as the oldest original black church building in America. For nearly six decades preceding the Civil War, the African Meetinghouse was the epicenter where much activism to abolish slavery was born and bred.

Jubilee Juneteenth and the Thirteenth tells the history of slavery in Massachusetts during the Colonial and American Revolutionary periods and addresses the impact of the laws during that time and insight into the Boston antebellum and the abolitionists' movement. The film further addresses the effects of the Civil War and how it led to the Emancipation Proclamation and its layered impact on ending slavery and the development of the 14th and 15th Amendments.

The program will illuminate and tell the stories of unknown heroes such as, Elizabeth "MumBet" Freeman who sued to win her freedom and the court ruling that made Massachusetts the first state to abolish slavery in 1783, Lewis Hayden, who operated a Beacon Hill safe house for the underground railroad and William Cooper Nell, Abolitionist, Journalist, and Author that organized the Jubilee of 1863 at Tremont Temple.

By the end of the documentary, you will better understand the historical context, significance, and influences of Boston's Black community in moving America's trajectory toward freedom and equality.

Join the discussion with Dr. Kerri Greenidge, Dr. Kellie Carter Jackson, and Sylvia Stevens-Edouard, M.S. in conversation with the Globe's Meghan Irons on Thursday, February 17th at 3:00PM EST on Zoom

Hosted by: The Boston Globe
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