Trinity Church Wall Street will host “Scene & Unseen: Facing Race Through Film,” Feb. 8-9 at St. Paul’s Chapel.
Daveed Diggs, who wrote Blindspotting with Rafael Casal, will join a panel discussion of the film. The two-day conference will also feature a screening of Spike Lee’s Do the Right Thing (1989).
Other speakers include:
- Melanie DeMore, activist
- The Very Rev. Kelly Brown Douglas, theologian and author of Stand Your Ground: Black Bodies and the Justice of God; dean of Episcopal Divinity School at Union Seminary;
- Greg Garrett, professor of English at Baylor University and author of The Gospel According to Hollywood;
- Michael B. Gillespie, associate professor of film at City College of New York and author of Film Blackness: American Cinema and the Idea of Black Film;
- Melissa Harris-Perry, professor and Maya Angelou Presidential Chair at Wake Forest University and founding director of the Anna Julia Cooper Center;
- Catherine Meeks, executive director of the Absalom Jones Center for Racial Healing and editor of Living into God’s Dream: Dismantling Racism in America;
- Stanley T. Talbert, PhD candidate, Union Theological Seminary and writer;
- Lisa L. Thompson, assistant professor of homiletics at Union Theological Seminary and author of Ingenuity: Preaching as an Outsider.
Matthew Townsend is a Halifax-based freelance journalist and volunteer advocate for survivors of sexual misconduct in Anglican settings. He served as editor of the Anglican Journal from 2019 to 2021 and communications missioner for the Anglican Diocese of Quebec from 2019 to 2022. He and his wife recently entered catechism class in the Orthodox Church in America.
