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On Thursday, February 4, from 6:30-8:00 PM, MMPCIA welcomes filmmaker and educator Jamal Joseph as its speaker for Mount Morris Talks! — a series of conversations between the community and leaders, news makers, artists, authors and thinkers who live in the Harlem area.
Jamal Joseph is chair of Columbia University’s Graduate Film Program, co-founder and executive artistic director of the IMPACT Repertory Theatre of Harlem, executive artistic director of the New Heritage Theatre Group and an Oscar nominee.
It all started back in the ’80s — when he was an inmate at the federal penitentiary in Leavenworth, KS. There, imprisoned for harboring a fugitive in a fatal armored car robbery, he earned two college degrees, wrote five plays and two volumes of poetry, and founded a theater company that brought together prisoners who’d previously been divided by race, culture and beliefs. Continue reading →
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