'A Reckoning In Boston' Asks Its Audience — And Filmmaker — To Examine Privilege
Kafi Dixon is one of the producers of "A Reckoning in Boston" and a subject of the film. (Courtesy) Late one night in an adult education classroom in Dorchester, Kafi Dixon compares the toll of living in an environment that upholds white supremacy to a “slow drip, drip, on a hard stone.” Her comment prompts a burst of discussion. One student ups the comparison to a trickle and the group shares a laugh when another adds, “Turn that faucet off!” Drawn to the intimacy and transformative potential of the Clemente Course in the Humanities -- designed to give adults with limited financial ...