The Right to Read
Directed by
SHOWTIMES
Wed 6/19: 7:20p
RELEASE DATE
6/19/24
RATING
RUN TIME
1h20min
FREE community screening in commemoration of Juneteenth! Presented with community partner Tulsa Juneteenth and film courtesy of Participant Media. by Lauren Corbitt, Executive Director of Tulsa Juneteenth, will make a special introduction before the film.
Screening one night only, 7:20p Wed 6/19. All admission free, first come first served. We recommend arriving 30min prior to showtime to get a ticket and any concessions before the film.
When a child can’t read, their chances of incarceration, homelessness, and unemployment increase. That’s why Oakland-based NAACP activist Kareem Weaver believes literacy is one of the greatest civil rights issues of our time and is fighting for better reading instruction. “What good is winning the right to vote if we can’t even read the ballot?” Fed up with the bleak reading scores in his own community, Kareem files a petition with the Oakland Unified School District demanding change.
