Power to the People, Y’all: Screening + Panel
WHEN: TUESDAY AUGUST 4TH, 6-8PM
WHERE: CAPRI THEATER, JACKSON MS
Join us for a special community screening of Power to the People, Y’all, a short documentary by Dr. Tressie McMillan Cottom.
Power to the People, Y’all is a character-driven documentary that explores aging, legacy, and resistance through interviews with five founding members of the Winston-Salem Chapter of the Black Panther Party: Hazel Mack, Dr. Larry Little, Nelson Malloy, Cynthia Norwood, and Bradford Lilley.
Following the screening, we will host a cross-generational panel discussion moderated by Tressie McMillan Cottom, bringing together local leaders whose work has long shaped—and continues to shape—the civil rights movement.
While the film is rooted in a specific place, our conversation will focus on something larger: how its lessons on community, power, and organizing travel across time and geography, and how they remain urgently relevant to the conditions we are navigating today.
We invite organizers, students, neighbors, and anyone interested in learning and dialogue to join us for an evening of film and reflection—an intergenerational exchange grounded in history, sharpened by the present, and oriented toward what’s still possible.
This event is presented in partnership by Springboard to Opportunities, Southern Poverty Law Center, Mississippi Votes, People’s Advocacy Institute, and the NAACP Mississippi State Conference.
Doors open at 5:30 PM. Screening begins promptly at 6:00 PM.