The Vanderbilt Kennedy Center, Family Voices of Tennessee, and the Tennessee Justice Center are hosting a dinner and free screening of the documentary The Color of Careon Monday, Oct. 21, in Room 241 of the Vanderbilt Kennedy Center/One Magnolia Circle Building, located on Peabody Campus at 110 Magnolia Blvd., Nashville. Dinner will be served at 6 p.m. CT, with the film beginning at 6:30 p.m. There will be a brief Q&A session following the screening.
The Color of Care chronicles how people of color suffer from systemically substandard health care in the United States, with a pressing focus on how the COVID-19 pandemic shed light on the tragic consequences of that inequity. Executive producer Oprah Winfrey’s Harpo Productions and the Smithsonian Channel teamed up on this project, which traces the origins of this systemic inequity to practices that first emerged during slavery in the United States. Watch the first trailer here.
This event is free and open to the public, but advance registration is requested. Click here to RSVP by Oct. 14.