Black Lives Matter-Los Angeles Screening & Reception for PAFF Feature Film:

PLEASE NOTE THAT FACEBOOK RSVP DOES NOT GUARANTEE ADMISSION. YOU MUST PURCHASE ADVANCE TICKETS AT http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/2500004 FOR CONFIRMED ADMISSION. (Tickets are limited. Early purchase is recommended.) Black Lives Matter-Los Angeles Fundraiser - Screening & Reception for PAFF Feature Film: Agents of Change Please join Black Lives Matter-Los Angeles for a special screening of the powerful and timely documentary "Agents of Change" with a panel of special celebrity guests and prominent activists. The reception to follow will include dessert refreshments lovingly prepared by the Watts Coffee House. The significance of this event is to give in support of the front-line work of activists, but also SHOW UP and watch "Agents of Change" in solidarity with BLMLA to inspire us all to continue to be agents of change in the Black Lives Matter movement. Black Lives Matter Los Angeles is the original chapter of the international movement built to challenge state-sanctioned violence against Black people to envision and build a just and free society. Since 2013, BLM organizers have been doing work to disrupt systems of oppression and work towards solutions to end police profiling, brutality, and murder. Event: The 24th Annual Pan African Film & Arts Festival Location: Rave Cinemas 15- Baldwin Hills Crenshaw Plaza Los Angeles Date: February 12, 2016 Time: Early check in encouraged beginning at 7PM. Film begins promptly at 8:10PM, a discussion and dessert reception will follow. Donations: We ask that you contribute a sliding scale of a minimum of $30 with the suggested amount of $50 or more. RSVP here after purchasing your ticket. DO NOT JUST SIMPLY RSVP ON THE FACEBOOK INVITE, YOU MUST PURCHASE YOUR TICKETS HERE: http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/2500004 For more information, please email us at emailblmla@gmail.com. Agents of Change (Feature Documentary/64min) Short synopsis: It wasn't until the late 1960s that a critical mass of African American students began entering the nation's colleges and universities. Agents of Change tells the story of what they encountered, how they responded, and the continuing impact of the dramatic confrontations that followed. Denied facilities and services provided to white classmates, they were often the recipients of unfair campus judicial proceedings. Reacting to these provocation they organized, protested, negotiated, and transformed their schools. Therein lies the Agents of Change story, which has close links to today's Black Lives Matter protests in our ongoing national dialogue about race and racism. Long Synopsis: The images still hold a charge: graphic footage of student demonstrators at San Francisco State in 1968 being beaten and arrested by police, and the Pulitzer Prize winning photo the following year of black students with rifles emerging from the Cornell University student union building they had briefly occupied. These images are the entry points to a powerful but little known civil rights story: the struggle that erupted for more inclusive and meaningful higher education across America at the end of a tumultuous decade. The 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision mandated the integration of American schools "with all deliberate speed." It wasn't until the late 1960s that a critical mass of African American students began entering the nation's colleges and universities. Agents of Change tells the story of what they encountered, how they responded, and the continuing impact of the dramatic confrontations that followed. Instead of being accepted as they were, incoming Black, students were expected to shed their identities and assimilate mentally as well as socially into 'lily white' college campuses. Many students dealt with racial slurs, taunts and threats from faculty as well as from other students. Denied facilities and services provided to white classmates, they were often the recipients of unfair campus judicial proceedings. But they refused to take these provocations lying down. They organized, protested, negotiated, and transformed their schools. Agents of Change introduces a cast of largely unrecognized but remarkable characters, whose commitment to justice and equality paved the way for the opportunities that followed, while also reminding viewers about the work yet to be done to achieve full equity and dignity on campus and in society. How is it that so much and so little has changed? This film helps answer that question.