Rosewood

This event includes a screening followed by a Q&A. Part of the series “Jonathan Demme’s Rarely Seen Cinema.”

In 1923 a group of white men burned a predominantly black Florida town to the ground, slaughtering its residents—based on a lie. John Singleton’s (Boyz in the Hood) incendiary dramatization of this shocking episode stars Ving Rhames, Don Cheadle, and Jon Voight.