Attention Atlanta Network: You’re invited!
Join us for two days of collaborative programming during the 7th Annual Morehouse College Human Rights Film Festival (MCHRFF).
On Sept. 23 and 24, Learning for Justice will offer keynote presentations, fireside chats, panel conversations and film screenings and discussions. Speakers include Dr. Hasan Kwame Jeffries, Dr. David Wall Rice, Dr. Bettina L. Love, C.J. Hunt, Giona Jefferson, Ash-Lee Henderson and more.
Morehouse College
Bank of America Auditorium at the Shirley A. Massey Executive Conference Center
830 Westview Dr SW, Atlanta, GA 30314, United States
*Except for film screenings, all sessions on Sept. 23 and Sept. 24 are FREE.
Agenda
Learning for Justice Collaborative Programming
Learn more about each session by clicking on the link to the session page.
Sept. 23, 2025
12:30 – 1:00 p.m. Welcome & Opening Session featuring SPLC board chair Karen Baynes Dunning, Learning for Justice director Jalaya Liles Dunn, and Morehouse College Human Rights Film Festival executive director Kara Walker
1:00 – 2:00 p.m. Keynote Presentation | “Out of the Ashes: Building a New American Democracy” | Dr. Hasan Kwame Jeffries
2:00 p.m. Book signing opportunity with Hasan Kwame Jeffries after keynote.
4:00 – 5:00 p.m. Fireside Chat | “Democracy for the 21st Century | Dr. Hasan Kwame Jeffries and Dr. David Wall Rice
7:00 – 9:00 p.m. Film Screening and Discussion | Becoming Thurgood Marshall: America’s Social Architect
Sept. 24, 2025
10:30 – 11:00 a.m. Welcome & Opening Session featuring SPLC president Bryan Fair
11:00 a.m. – 12:15 p.m. Workshop | “Lights, Camera, Impact” | Kara Walker, Stephanie Calabrese
1:40 – 2:30 p.m. Filmmakers Conversation | “Liberatory Filmmaking: Black Artists Leading the Way” | Lecia Brooks, C.J. Hunt and Giona Jefferson
2:30 – 3:30 p.m. Learning for Justice: 30 Years of Learning Through Film | Showing of selected LFJ films and interviews with veterans of the Civil Rights Movement.
3:00 p.m. Book signing opportunity with Bettina Love before keynote presentation.
3:30 – 4:30 p.m. Keynote Presentation | “1954 to 2025: Black Educational Excellence & Mass Resistance” | Dr. Bettina L. Love
4:30 – 7:00 p.m. The Lakou: A Sanctuary of Learning Through Film and Dialogue
Featured speaker Ash-Lee Henderson | Introducing the Lakou Award and inaugural honoree, Otis Moss
* Note: This reception is by invitation.
7:00 – 9:00 p.m. Film Screening and Panel Discussion | Belonging Beyond Brown
Come together and learn with a week dedicated to human rights films at the 7th Annual Morehouse College Human Rights Film Festival from Sept. 23 to 27, 2025.
The Morehouse College Human Rights Film Festival was established in 2019 to extend the college’s position as an institution founded on the principles of equality and social justice.