Talking Black in America: A film screening with executive producer Walt Wolfram

Swing by the Carnegie Mellon campus to catch the Pittsburgh premiere of Talking Black in America. The documentary film examines African-American speech; the ways in which it is criticized, misunderstood and marginalized; its links to identity; and the impacts such misconceptions around language can have on both children and adults. The film will be introduced by Walt Wolfram, its executive producer and a professor at North Carolina State University. The screening will be followed by a panel discussion including Fred Brown, of Homewood Children’s Village; Pitt professor Waverly Duck; Lovie Jewell Jackson Foster, of Children Youth and Families; and Tamara Sanders-Woods, principal at Colfax Elementary and Middle School. -AH