Honoring Sterling Brown: A Screening of After Winter: Sterling Brown
Fri, May 01
|Sankofa Video, Book and Cafe
Join us on May 1 for Part 1 of a three-part series honoring the work of Sterling Brown. We’ll kick things off with a special screening of After Winter: Sterling Brown, the 1985 documentary by Haile Gerima, followed by a conversation with Haile and Lawrence Jackson, author of The Indignant Generation
Time & Location
May 01, 2026, 7:00 PM – 11:00 PM
Sankofa Video, Book and Cafe, 2714 Georgia Ave NW, Washington, DC 20001, USA
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About The Event
About the Film
A reverent and fascinating portrait of Harlem Renaissance poet Sterling Brown. Eighty-five years old at the time of this film, Brown reflects on his four decades teaching at Howard University and the impact of such figures as Jean Toomer, Langston Hughes, and Duke Ellington.
About Lawrence Jackson
Lawrence Jackson is the author of the award-winning books Chester B. Himes: A Biography (W.W. Norton 2017), The Indignant Generation: A Narrative History of African American Writers and Critics (Princeton 2010), My Father’s Name: A Black Virginia Family after the Civil War (Chicago 2012) and Ralph Ellison: Emergence of Genius, 1913-1952 (Wiley 2002). Harper’s Magazine, Paris Review and Best American Essays have published his criticism and non-fiction. Professor Jackson earned a PhD in English and American literature at Stanford University, and has held fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Humanities Center, and the William J. Fulbright program. He began…
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