Film screening: "The Prep School Negro"
"The Prep School Negro" - produced by J-school alumna and board of adviser member Barb Lee - will be screened Thursday, Feb. 18 at the Nelson Mandela Auditorium in the Global Education Center on the UNC campus.
A reception begins at 6 p.m. The film begins at 7 p.m.
In "The Prep School Negro," André Lee takes a journey back in time to revisit the events of his adolescence while also spending time with current-day prep school students of color and their classmates to see how much has really changed inside the ivory tower.
Lee's full scholarship to attend a Philadelphia prep school was supposed to be his way out of the ghetto, but this elite education came at a high personal cost. During this journey, Lee discovers along the way the poignant and unapologetic truth about who really pays the consequences for yesterday’s accelerated desegregation and today’s racial naiveté.
The event is co-sponsored by the Alumni Committee on Racial and Ethnic Diversity and the Office of Diversity and Multicultural Affairs.