26.09.2024
Join Serendipity Institute for Black Arts and Heritage for the twelfth season of Black History Month films, documentaries and talks at Phoenix, every Wednesday at 7.00 pm.
Serendipity explores the theme of Black Women: Invisible Power, with Angels on Diamond Street (2019) as the first film.
Wednesday 2 October
7.00pm
Phoenix
£9.20 | £8.50
Director: Patr Lom
Country: USA/Netherlands
Year: 2019
Run time: 1hr 28mins
Language: English / Spanish with English Subtitles
Genre: Documentary
Presented by Serendipity Institute for Black Arts and Heritage
Angels on Diamond Street spotlights three women fighting for social justice in at the Church of the Advocate: a national monument with a rich history in the civil rights movement. The film follows head cook Mamie Mather, former Black Panther Barbara Easley-Cox and Pastor Renee Mackenzie and what happens when an undocumented Mexican immigrant family – Carmela Apolonio Hernandez and her children – asks for sanctuary at the church.
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