THE RIGHT TO READ
Special Features: Free Juneteenth Screening!
FREE SCREENING! Tickets are limited to four per reservation and are not a guarantee of admission. You must be seated at least 15 min. prior to showtime. Seating is limited, so please arrive early. Empty seats will be released to standby line guests.
When a child can't read, their chances of incarceration, homelessness and unemployment increase. That's why Oakland-based NAACP activist Kareem Weaver believes literacy is one of the greatest civil rights issues of our time and is fighting for better reading instruction. "What good is winning the right to vote if we can’t even read the ballot?" Fed up with the bleak reading scores in his own community, Weaver files a petition with the Oakland Unified School District demanding change. Executive produced by Levar Burton, THE RIGHT TO READ shares the stories of an activist, a teacher and two American families who fight to provide our youngest generation with the most foundational indicator of lifelong success: the ability to read. DIR/PROD Jenny Mackenzie; PROD Sabi Habib-Lowder, Kareem Jabbar Weaver. U.S., 2023, color, 71 min. NOT RATED
Run Time: 71 Minutes
Opening Date: Wednesday, June 19, 2024
Genre: Documentary
