FORTY YEARS LATER: NOW CAN WE TALK?

40 Years Later: Now Can We Talk? tells the story of the first African Americans to integrate the white high school in Batesville, Mississippi in 1967-69. In 2005, the Black alumni received an invitation to their class reunion-for the first time in40 years. By interspersing separate group discussions among black and whitealumni with a dialogue between both groups, the film provides a moving storyof the impact of desegregation, then and now. 40 Years Later raises questionsessential to interracial dialogue and renews a commitment to addressing ongoingracial segregation today. Directed by Markie Hancock of Hancock Productions,the film was executive produced by Lee Anne Bell, Barnard's Barbara Silver Horowitz Director of Education. Faculty members Kim Hall and Monica Millerserved as consultants and Renee Slajda '13 was a member of the film crew. A panel and reception will follow the screening.