Shared Legacies, a documentary film. In conjunction with the “Standing Together Against Racism” program on January 24 2021, the Santa Fe Film Festival has arranged FREE streaming of the documentary, Shared Legacies. The film takes us back to when Black-Jewish co-operation was a given, and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel walked arm in arm. Archival footage and recent interviews remind us of two communities, each of whom encountered prejudice, violence, and segregation, that came together with the founding of the NAACP in 1909 and blossomed in the 1960s due in large measure to the relationship between Dr. King and Rabbi Heschel. With narration and interviews with Holocaust survivors, the late Congressman John Lewis, Oscar-winning actor Louis Gossett Jr., Rabbi Peter S. Berg, Julian Bond, and members of the King and Heschel families, among others, it is a story of two people whose support of the other made each stronger. But it’s also the story of the price these communities paid including the murder of three civil rights workers, one Black and two Jewish, during the Freedom Summer of 1964 in Mississippi. The film will be available to stream for free from 4:00 PM, Mon., Jan. 18 to 4:00 PM, Thurs. Jan. 21. For free tickets: SantaFeJFF.org/tickets, or call 505.216.0672.
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Earlier Event: January 16
Havdallah and Kiddush Levanah Outdoor Drive-in Ceremony
Later Event: January 24
Standing Together Against Racism: Building on our Common Heritage