In September 2025, Learning for Justice offered two days of collaborative programming during the 7th Annual Morehouse College Human Rights Film Festival (MCHRFF). Atlanta area community members along with university staff and students were treated to keynote presentations, fireside chats, panel conversations and film screenings and discussions.
Video of selected conversations will be available as part of LFJ’s new publication, Learning for Justice Anthology. Stay tuned for the first volume, “Democracy for the 21st Century,” coming in Jan. 2026!
Agenda
Learning for Justice Collaborative Programming
Learn more about each session by clicking on the link to the session page at the MCHRFF website.
Sept. 23, 2025
12:30 – 1:00 p.m. Welcome & Opening Session.
1:00 – 2:00 p.m. Keynote Presentation | “Out of the Ashes: Building a New American Democracy” | Dr. Hasan Kwame Jeffries
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
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, Giona Jefferson and Nina gilbert
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.
3:30 – 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
7:00 – 9:00 p.m. Film Screening and Panel Discussion | Belonging Beyond Brown
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.
Check out the full film festival schedule for the 2025 event.