PBS film The Long Shadow at Clarendon Hills Library June 21-28

Frances Causey is an Emmy Award-winning director, former CNN senior producer and TED contributor. She is also a white women raised in the south in a family with a history of slave ownership.

Causey decided to use her investigative and film-making skills to create The Long Shadow, an examination of her own family’s legacy of white privilege. She places her own family history in the context of the history of anti-Black racism that still plagues our country.

She commented:

The Long Shadow was a film I had to make. It has become a go-to primer for white folks who want to better understand our nation’s 400 years of systemic racism. The film is educating white people on what it will take to reckon with this tragedy and make an important, positive impact in the African-American community through real change. We know that the story of slavery and Jim Crow is an American story and is not one that the African-American community is responsible for
repairing.

The Clarendon Hills Library will offer this documentary film for free streaming from Monday, June 21 through Monday, June 28. Click here to view the film on those dates.

We're excited to also present a virtual live conversation with Frances Causey on Thursday, June 24 at 7 pm. You may register here to attend this online Q & A session.