Afro-Punk

Free admission! The screening will be followed by a conversation with director James Spooner, El/yse Ambrose (Associate Professor in the Department of Black Study and the Department for the Study of Religion), and Richard T. Rodríguez (Professor of English). The Afro-Punk documentary was the first film to ask Black punks about their lives. The conversation hasn’t ended since. Directed by James Spooner and released in 2003, the film follows Black punks and hardcore kids who existed at the margins of two worlds, invisible in mainstream Black culture and uncentered in the predominantly white alte