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Pushout: the Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools

2023-02-23 13:00:00 2023-02-23 14:30:00 America/Regina Pushout: the Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools Free Admission | Thursday February 23 - 1:00 PM CST and 7:00 PM CST | USA | 2019 | 90min | STC | Directed by Jacoba Atlas | 7PM film features discussion with Barbara McNeil and Carol LaFayette-Boyd Film Theatre -

Thursday, February 23
1:00pm - 2:30pm

Add to Calendar 2023-02-23 13:00:00 2023-02-23 14:30:00 America/Regina Pushout: the Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools Free Admission | Thursday February 23 - 1:00 PM CST and 7:00 PM CST | USA | 2019 | 90min | STC | Directed by Jacoba Atlas | 7PM film features discussion with Barbara McNeil and Carol LaFayette-Boyd Film Theatre -

Free Admission | Thursday February 23 - 1:00 PM CST and 7:00 PM CST | USA | 2019 | 90min | STC | Directed by Jacoba Atlas | 7PM film features discussion with Barbara McNeil and Carol LaFayette-Boyd

Stream this film for free any time, any day with your RPL library card on Kanopy: https://www.kanopy.com/en/reginalibrary/video/10362122

7 PM Screening will feature discussion with Barbara McNeil and Carol LaFayette-Boyd. Register for reminder or learn more: https://www.reginalibrary.ca/attend/programs/7958763

Introduction by Dr. Barbara McNeil: Inspired by the groundbreaking book of the same name by Monique W. Morris, Ed.D, PUSHOUT: THE CRIMINALIZATION OF BLACK GIRLS IN SCHOOLS takes a deep dive into the lives of Black girls and the practices, cultural beliefs and policies that disrupt one of the most important factors in their lives – education. Alarmingly, African American girls are the fastest-growing population in the juvenile justice system and the only group of girls to disproportionately experience criminalization at every education level.

The film underscores the challenges Black girls face with insights from multiple experts across the country who have worked extensively in the fields of social and criminal justice, gender equality and educational equity, giving context to the crisis and providing a roadmap for how our educational system and those who interact with Black girls can provide a positive rather than punitive response to behaviors that are often misunderstood or misrepresented.

Dr. Barbara McNeil is associate professor of Language and Literacy Education at the University of Regina. Dr. McNeil works chiefly in the areas of language and literacies, her primary research interests include literacy teaching and learning (PreK-12 - reading, writing, listening, speaking, viewing and responding), critical literacies, critical pedagogies, writing pedagogies, children’s literature, linguistic diversity, teacher education, arts education, multicultural education, children and war, and inclusive museums. Dr. McNeil's research interests lend themselves to interdisciplinarity as well as multidisciplinarity in local as well as global contexts.

Image courtesy of Esperanza Sanchez Espitia

Carol Lafayette-Boyd was born on a farm west of Saskatoon in 1942. She lived in small towns until 1956. Carol and her siblings were the only Black children wherever they lived until 1959 when people of African ancestry began moving to Regina. Carol has been active with the following - Saskatchewan African Canadian Heritage Museum (SACHM), Bob Adams Foundation (BAF) and the For The Love Of Matthew (FTLOM). She attends Gateway Christian Fellowship church. She has lived and worked in the United States and Canada as a clerk, nurse and social worker. Carol trained as a psychiatric nurse (Registered Psychiatric Nurse )and was a registered social worker. Carol retired in 2005 after 33 years with the Saskatchewan Government in Social Services and Corrections and Public Safety. She is a Masters track and field athlete having taken up competition at age 50. She is an inductee in the Regina Sports Hall of Fame (2014) and Canadian Masters Athletics Hall of Fame (2012). Carol was selected as 2018 and 2022 World Masters Association (WMA )Female Athlete of the year.

AGE GROUP: | STC |

EVENT TYPE: | Film Theatre Films |

TAGS: | Free Films | Documentary | Books on Film |

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The RPL Film Theatre screens the best of world cinema – up to 15 films a month. The Film Theatre has “something for everyone” and is the only cinema in the city to consistently present critically-acclaimed contemporary and alternative cinema: Canadian, foreign and independent films and documentaries.

For more than 50 years, Regina Public Library (RPL) has played a pivotal role in the cultural life of the city of Regina and surrounding areas. In the mid-60s, interest in a permanent venue for film enthusiasts grew into a program at the Library – a co-operative effort between the local Film Council and the National Film Board of Canada. A landmark year for the cultural, multi-cultural and surrounding business communities was 1975, the year the RPL Film Theatre was officially launched.

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