Black Cinema House

Join Ayana Contreras: Monkey Hustlin’ in Chicago.

I will be hosting a film screening of 1976’s Monkey Hustle at the Black Cinema House on Sunday, June 9th at 6pm. We will watch the film (which was shot mere blocks from where we’ll be watching it), and then discuss it. Monkey Hustle – hosted by Ayana Contreras Black Cinema House 6901 S. Dorchester…

May 20, 2013

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Arts & Culture, Chicago Cultural History, Cult Movie of the Week, Film and Television, Jive Culture, Visual Arts

Ayana Contreras, Black Cinema House, Chicago, Debbi Morgan, Rosalind Cash, Rudy Ray Moore, Yaphet Kotto
Chicago: Segregated City

Kartemquin Films is collaborating with Black Cinema House to present “Chicago: Segregated City”, a screening and discussion of three of Kartemquin’s classic films about racial issues in Chicago, along with an exclusive sneak preview of 63 Boycott, their in-progress film about the 1963 boycott of Chicago Public Schools by thousands of African American parents and…

December 13, 2012

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Arts & Culture, Chicago Cultural History, Film and Television

Black Cinema House, Chicago, Chicago Public Library, Chicago Public Schools, Gordon Quinn, Kartemquin Films