Roads to Memphis: A Community Conversation from PBS

April 28, 2010
6:00 to 9:00 p.m.

at the
North Carolina Museum of History
Join The Conversation . . .

The North Carolina Museum of History and UNC-TV invite you to attend Roads To Memphis - A Community Conversation. This event will combine an exclusive preview screening of a segment of Roads to Memphis, a new documentary film from the PBS series American Experience, with the recording of a community discussion about the current state of civil rights in North Carolina. Highlights from the discussion will air as part of an upcoming edition of UNC-TV's weekly public affairs series Black Issues Forum.

The event will be held at the North Carolina Museum of History in downtown Raleigh (5 East Edenton Street) on Wednesday, April 28, from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m.

Panelists will include:

Rev. Samuel "Billy" Kyles, Pastor, Monumental Baptist Church, Memphis, TN, and eyewitness to the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Cash Michaels, Editor/Photo Journalist, The Carolinian

Timothy B. Tyson, Senior Research Scholar at the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University

Please share this event invitation with your members, colleagues and friends.

There is no charge to attend this event; however, registration is required and space is limited.

Please register online at unctv.org/roadstomemphis
by Friday, April 23, or contact Joanne Davis at 1-877-407-0004 or jdavis@unctv.orgfor more information.


Agenda

6:00 p.m. Reception

7:00 p.m. Preview Screening of a segment of Roads to Memphis

Roads to Memphis tells the wildly disparate yet fatefully entwined stories of an assassin, James Earl Ray, and his target, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., against the backdrop of the seething and turbulent forces in American society that led these two men to their violent and tragic collision in Memphis, Tennessee, on April 4, 1968.

7:45 p.m. Community Conversation: Hope, Change, and Civil Rights Today

More than 40 years after the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., what is the state of civil rights in North Carolina today? Be a participant in an in-depth community conversation about what we have learned, where we are now, and what needs to happen in the future to ensure that Dr. King's dream is realized for all North Carolinians.

Panel members will include:

Rev. Samuel "Billy" Kyles, Pastor, Monumental Baptist Church, Memphis, TN, and eyewitness to the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Cash Michaels, Editor/Photo Journalist, The Carolinian

Timothy B. Tyson, Senior Research Scholar at the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University

9:00 p.m. Event Concludes
Please contact Joanne Davis at 1-877-407-0004 or jdavis@unctv.org for more information.