Columbus Metropolitan Library is hosting this virtual community program. Live chat with panelists from your computer or mobile device.

Can’t attend the live stream? Sign up and watch the recording afterwards.

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Speak Up/Speak Out:
Conversations About Race

Join us for virtual community conversations as we continue to discuss race and social justice in Columbus and in America.

Each month we’re choosing a book, article, movie or music selection from our collection to experience and reflect upon together.

Our moderators and panelists are community leaders who strive to speak up and speak out to address institutional and systemic inequities that face our communities.

July Selection: Broken on All Sides directed by Matthew Pillischer
Genre:  Documentary film (2012)
Check it out: Stream it on Kanopy free with your library card

Donna Zuiderweg, Columbus Metropolitan Library

Dr. Michael Davis, Religious Services Administrator, Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction

Dr. Terrance Hinton, Faculty Lecturer, Department of Sociology & John Glenn College at The Ohio State University

Judge Eileen Paley, Franklin County Municipal Court

Presenting a historical narrative not often heard about prisons and crime, Broken on All Sides is a 2012 documentary that investigates the complex issues of discretion within the system, racial targeting, and the largest spike in the number of people incarcerated in our nation's history.

Through interviews with people caught up in or involved with the system, this documentary answers and provokes questions on an issue walled-off from the public's scrutiny.

Broken on All Sides dissects the War on Drugs and "tough on crime" movement, illustrating how the emerging Occupy movement offers hope for change, and explores possible reforms and solutions to ending mass incarceration.

Upcoming Speak Up/Speak Out Conversations

We invite book clubs, families and workplaces to read, watch or listen to each month’s selection and join us in the conversation.

August 24 - Eloquent Rage by Brittany Cooper

September 22 - Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson

October 20 - Men We Reaped by Jesmyn Ward

November 16 - Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson

Visit crowdcast.io/columbuslibrary to register for upcoming programs.

Conversation about "Broken on All Sides" (2012 documentary film)