Overview

Celebrate an icon who spent his life getting into Good Trouble!

This month, remember the life and legacy of Representative John Lewis – Freedom Rider and Congressman, Presidential Medal of Freedom honoree and the conscience of a nation – who served the cause of social justice for decades, both as an elected representative and as a groundbreaking activist whose fervent belief in getting into “good trouble, necessary trouble” for the cause of racial equality changed our nation.

Join NJPAC and audiences from more than 50 nonprofit cultural organizations around the country for a nationwide watch of the riveting new documentary John Lewis: Good Trouble followed by a live virtual panel on Monday, September 21, @7PM featuring the film’s director and civil rights advocates as they talk about Representative Lewis’s legacy of fearless protest and how we can keep his campaign for justice alive. This event is part of the Arts Center’s ongoing PSEG True Diversity Film Series.

To take part in this groundbreaking event, rent the film directly from Magnolia Pictures below for $12.

This rental also allows you exclusive access to two other videos: Film of an interview Congressman Lewis gave to Oprah Winfrey shortly before his death earlier this year, as well as a one-hour panel, recorded in July, between the film’s director, Dawn Porter, and two of the original Freedom Riders, Dr. Bernard Lafayette and Dr. Rip Patton. Your rental also includes a $5 donation to NJPAC!

Then, on Monday, September 21, @ 7PM, join an interactive Zoom panel discussion with director Dawn PorterRas J. Baraka, Mayor of Newark, NJ, Khalil Gibran Muhammad, Professor of History, Race and Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School and Director of the Institutional Antiracism and Accountability Project, and Lonnie G. Bunch III, Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, to talk about Representative Lewis’s legacy of fearless protest and how we can keep his campaign for justice alive. US Senator from New Jersey, Cory Booker, will provide opening remarks.

(Interactive Zoom session is limited to 10,000 participants; if the panel is full, you can still watch the discussion on NJPAC’s Facebook Live feed.)