Aug. 3 - Aug. 6: BlackStar Film Festival in Philly, Fall Out Boy in N.J., and Dean Ford & The Beautiful Ones in Delaware are among the weekend’s highlights.
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'Storming Caesars Palace' There were almost two decades between Dartmouth College professor of history Annelise Orleck writing Storming Caesars Palace: How Black Mothers Fought Their Own War on Poverty and director Hazel Gurland-Pooler adapting it into a documentary for PBS, but the message has never stopped being relevant. JAM hosts a special screening of the film, which tells the story of grassroots labor organizer Ruby Duncan and her efforts to mobilize her fellow Las Vegas workers in support of welfare rights. Viewers interested in learning more can ask Orleck about Duncan, economic justice and more at the Q&A that follows.
<p>A leading historian of poor people's activism joins HNN for a discussion of the new edition of her acclaimed book on the Las Vegas Welfare Rights movement, which is the basis for a documentary now streaming on PBS. </p>