The following screenings and other events took place in calendar year 2020. For recent and upcoming events, please see our main screenings and events page.

January 7, 2020, 7:00pm, Jones Library, Amherst, Mass.

January 12, 2020, 2:00-4:00pm, St. Bede’s Church, Atlanta, Ga. Screening and guided conversation for all women of the Episcopal Diocese of Atlanta. Hosted by the local chapter of the Society of the Companions of the Holy Cross.

January 19, 2020, 6:00-9:00pm, First Presbyterian Church of Allentown, Allentown, Pa. Screening and discussion. Sponsored by the Lehigh Conference of Churches. Free, but see registration details at the link.

January 21, 2020, 4:00pm, Selma Dallas County Public Library, Selma, Ala. Part of the W.K. Kellogg Foundation’s National Day of Racial Healing.

February 4, 2020, 6:00pm-8:00pm, “Social Reparations: ‘Beyond the 40 Acres,'” Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass. Panel discussion about the legal battle to reclaim coerced images of the enslaved from the university, with descendant Tamara K. Lanier, Dr. David Harris of the Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race and Justice at Harvard Law School, and our own James DeWolf Perry.

February 8, 2020, 10:00am, St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, Oakland, Calif. Screening and discussion with Constance and Dain Perry.

February 9, 2020, 4:00pm, Grace Cathedral, San Francisco, Calif. Screening and discussion with Constance and Dain Perry.

February 11, 2020, 7:00pm, Center for the Healing of Racism, Houston, Tex.

February 16, 2020, 2:00pm, St. Michael’s, Litchfield, Conn.

February 19, 2020, 1:00pm, Howland Public Library, Beacon, N.Y.

March 5, 2020, 6:00pm, Cross’ Mills Public Library, Charlestown, R.I. A collaboration of the Charlestown Historical Society, Earthinform Studio, and the Cross’ Mills Public Library. Other events in this series on “the plantation life of southern Rhode Island,” linked above, include talks with Dr. Charlotte Carrington-Farmer and Dr. Joanne Pope Melish.

March 14, 2020, 5:00pm, Southampton African American Museum, Southampton, N.Y.

April 24, 2020, 9:00am-10:30am, “Reparations: A Faith, Spiritual, and Biblical Engagement,” Allentown, Pa. Katrina Browne will be speaking at this ticketed event from the Lehigh Conference of Churches on the importance of racial healing, reconciliation and justice.

May 1, 2020, 7:00pm, Theodore Parker Church, Boston, Mass.

August 8, 2020, 8:30am-5:00pm, Symposium: Race & Slavery in New England (1700-1870), Newburyport, Mass. Note: This event has been postponed due to the pandemic. Explore the truth about slavery and abolition in 18th and 19th century New England. Keynote addresses by Prof. John Stauffer (Harvard) and Prof. Manisha Sinha (Univ. of Conn.). Presenters include the Tracing Center’s James DeWolf Perry.

November 19, 2020, 6:30pm, St. Peter’s Episcopal Church, Weston, Mass. Virtual screening and discussion of “Traces of the Trade,” facilitated by James DeWolf Perry.

November 23, 2020, 6:00pm, Madison Library, Madison, N.H. Via Zoom. Co-sponsored by the Madison Church and Cook Memorial Public Library District. Discussion with Constance Perry, Dain Perry, and Sean Dunker-Bendigo. Register at the link.