Screening and Panel Discussion – Dr. Henry Louis Gates, Jr.’s Black and Jewish America

Special screening of Dr. Henry Louis Gates, Jr.’s new film, Black and Jewish America: An Interwoven History, followed by a Detroit-focused panel discussion including our CEO, Catherine Cangany, PhD.

Panel will include: 

• Moderator: Angelique Power, president and CEO of the Skillman Foundation
• Ken Coleman, journalist and author, eminent historian of Black life in Detroit
• Catherine Cangany, PhD scholar and historian, CEO of Jewish Historical Society of Michigan
• Rev. Aramis Hinds, Lead Pastor of Breakers Covenant Church International, and member of Detroit PBS Black Church in Detroit Advisory Committee
• Rabbi Ariana Silverman of the Isaac Agree Downtown Synagogue, Detroit’s last freestanding synagogue

Sponsored by: Detroit PBS & Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History