Beer Summit: The black Presidential imaginary @OpenHouse

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Beer Summit: The black Presidential imaginary @OpenHouse

Organize  by Ross Jordan and hosted by Robyn Farrell and Drew Roulo
7-8:30pm

In 1933 the thought of a Black President was an absurd possibility, so a seven year old Sammy Davis Jr. appeared alongside Ethel Waters as president elect in the film Rufus Jones for President. Many years later black comedians Richard Pryor and then Eddie Murphy and Chris Rock would continue dramatizing the image of a black president. The reception and screening featured an array of Black Presidents of popular cultural from the blackface to the Anger Translator.