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Art, culture, politics blend at Honolulu African American Film Festival

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ASSOCIATED PRESS

A discussion called “Art & Racial Justice: A Conversation With Patrisse Cullors and Alicia Garza, Co-founders of Black Lives Matter,” will be held at 1 p.m. Feb. 11 at the Honolulu Museum of Art. It is one of the featured events celebrating Black History Month at the museum in February. Cullors, pictured above, said that part of her discussion will be “about building bridges with new communities.”

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COHEN MEDIA GROUP

“Daughters of the Dust,” showing at 1 and 7:30 p.m. Thursday is a highly praised drama that tells of the Gullah people, descendants of slaves who inhabit the Sea Islands off South Carolina. The film has been enhanced from the original 1991 version.

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COURTESY KRISTIN LITTLE PHOTOGRAPHY

Writer Alicia Garza joins Patrisse Cullors for the talk at the film festival. Garza has worked on issues such as access to health care and civil rights for students, domestic workers and transgender people of color, as well as police brutality and racism.

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COURTESY HONOLULU MUSEUM OF ART

“I Am Not Your Negro,” showing at 3 p.m. Feb. 11, is a documentary based on a book by James Baldwin about Medgar Evers, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr., all of whom were friends of Baldwin and were victims of assassination.