Check Out These MLK Day Film Screenings In Tribeca

TRIBECA, NY — The African Burial Ground National Monument in Tribeca will celebrate Martin Luther King Jr. with free screenings of "Slavery By Another Name" and "King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery To Memphis" on Monday, Jan. 16.

The monument honors the space in Lower Manhattan where free and enslaved Africans were buried from about the 1690s until 1794. The 6.6-acre burial ground, which was outside the boundaries of the settlement of New Amsterdam, was lost to history due to landfill and development but rediscovered in 1991 as a consequence of the planned construction of a federal office building. The African Burial Ground became a National Historic Landmark in 1993.

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The first film, PBS' "Slavery by Another Name," is based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning book by Douglas A. Blackmon, and will be screened at 10:30 a.m. The film "challenges one of our country’s most cherished assumptions: the belief that slavery ended with Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation of 1863."

The second film, Ely Landau's "King: A Filmed Record...Montgomery to Memphis" will play at 12:30 p.m. Constructed from a wealth of archival footage, the documentary "follows Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. from 1955 to 1968, in his rise from regional activist to world-renowned leader of the Civil Rights movement."

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