Monday, February 19 • 7pm
Claude McKay, de Harlem à Marseille (Claude McKay, from Harlem to Marseille)
Matthieu Verdeil, H264, 80 min
France, 2021 (French, English)
Midwest premiere
Following in the footsteps of the Jamaican-American poet, novelist, journalist and Harlem Renaissance rebel, Claude McKay, the film takes us on his musical and artistic journey through the 1920s, from Harlem to Marseille, France, via Jamaica, Russia and Morocco.
Co-sponsored by the Department of African and African Diaspora Studies