In celebration of Black History Month, PBS39, Bethlehem Area School District, and Lehigh University Office of Multicultural Affairs present a special pre-screening event of the critically acclaimed documentary Slavery by Another Name.

Date: Thursday, February 9, 2012
Time: 6:30 – 8 p.m.
Place: PBS39 Public Media and Education Center
RSVP: Jessie Heimann, PBS39 Creative Services – jessieh@wlvt.org

Event includes highlights from the documentary (18 minutes), followed by a panel discussion with experts from Lehigh University, Northampton Community College, and Moravian College.

The 90-minute documentary airs in its entirety on Monday, February 13 at 10 p.m. on PBS39.

Slavery by Another Name “resets” our national clock with a singular astonishing fact: Slavery in America didn’t end 150 years ago, with Abraham Lincoln’s 1863 Emancipation Proclamation.  Based on Douglas A. Blackmon’s Pulitzer Prize-winning book, the film illuminates how in the years following the Civil War, insidious new forms of forced labor emerged in the American South, persisting until the onset of World War II.