Film Screening: P.O.P Showing 'Presumption of Guilt'

On Thursday, October 30, the People’s Organization for Progress will host a special showing of Newark native Hafiz Farid’s critically acclaimed documentary “Presumption of Guilt: Race, Class and Crime in America.” Doors will open at 6:30 p.m.

The meeting will take place at the Abyssinian Baptist Church, 224 West Kinney Street, Newark.

The film was tabbed the best “social documentary” at the New York Independent Film and Video Festival. It is based on the book Presumption Of Guilt by Charles Ogletree and capturing the residual issues surrounding the arrest of Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates, who apprehended while entering his own home.

“If this could happen to someone as upstanding as Dr. Henry Louis Gates,“ said Lawrence Hamm, the organization’s founding chairman, “Imagine what is happening to ordinary men and women of color every day at the hands of the police.“

It includes interviews with Ogletree, the late Maya Angelou, Michelle Alexander and among others.

Information and photo courtesy of the People’s Organization for Progress.