PAST EVENTS

Previous Screenings of The Innocent Convicts by:

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 1.     Host:     Emerson College

          Date:    Monday, October 28, 2019

          Time:    6:00 PM - 7:00 PM EST 

          Venue: Ansin Building

                          180 Tremont Street,

                          Boston, MA 02116

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 2.   Host:   Framingham Human Relations

                         Commission

          Date:    Tuesday, December 11, 2018

          Time:    7:00 PM - 8:30 PM EST 

          Venue:  Framingham Public Library

                          49 Lexington Street,

                          Framingham, MA 01702

          Co-Sponsor: Temple Beth Am,

                        City of Framingham, MA.

 3.    Host:   Cambridge Public Library

         Date:   Thursday, July 26, 2018

         Time:   6:30 PM - 8:00 PM EST 

         Venue: Cambridge Public Library

                        449 Broadway Street,

                        Cambridge, MA 02138

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 4.    Host:   Boston Public Library

         Date:   Saturday, June 02, 2018

         Time:   2:00 PM - 3:30 PM EST 

         Venue: Rabb Hall

                       Central Library(Copley Square),

                        700 Boylston Street,

                        Boston, MA 02116

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All participants rated it as an excellent, intimate and supportive opportunity to bond with others experiencing a similar plight.

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Events The Innocent Convicts participated in:

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1. Massachusetts Trial Court

    Listening Session
    February 27, 2020 at 6:00 - 8:00PM
    Roxbury Community College
    1234 Columbus Ave., Academic Building,
    Roxbury Crossing, MA
A hearing from community members about their experiences with the court system and to explore ways to improve the delivery of justice.

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2.  Free At Last! The Wrongful Conviction of

     Sean Ellis

     Host: Needham Human Rights Committee

     November 15, 2019 at 7 PM – 9 PM

     The Center at the Heights
     300 Hillside Avenue
     Needham, MA 02494  

A Celebration of Sean's Freedom, former student from Needham Public Schools who served almost 22 years in prison for a crime he did not commit. A discussion about wrongful convictions in Massachusetts, the continued role of racial bias in our criminal justice system, and the critical work of the New England Innocence Project.

3. 23rd Annual Mother's Day Walk for Peace

    Host: Louis D. Brown Peace Institute

    Dorchester, MA.

    May 12, 2019. 8:00 AM - 12 Noon

The Mother's Day Walk for Peace is a beloved Boston tradition and celebration of our potential to create more peaceful communities. A six-mile walk from Dorchester to Boston City Hall to support advocacy, training and intervention services provided by the Institute, and to continue to demand dignity and compassion for all families impacted by murder.

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4. SCDAO Town Hall

     Host: Suffolk County District Attorney's Office

     March 28, 2019 at 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM EDT

     Hibernian Hall

     184 Dudley St

     Boston, MA 02119

First of DA Rollins quarterly community sessions where she and members of her Executive Office shared      Reports out of the office and followed by a live Q&A session.

5. Remain Free: An Author Talk with

     GAUTAM NARULA

     July 7, 2018 | 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm

     Rabb Hall, Central Library in Copley Square

     700 Boylston St
     Boston, MA 02116

In 2011, Troy Anthony Davis, a black man convicted of murdering white police officer Mark MacPhail in cold blood, was the world’s most famous death row inmate. In the twenty-two years since the murder, Davis had faced four execution dates. The day after one of those execution dates, a fifteen-year-old named Gautam Narula wrote Davis a letter.

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In his award-winning memoir Remain Free, Gautam Narula details his unlikely friendship with Troy Davis, a man wrongfully accused of killing a police officer. Drawing upon hundreds of hours of conversations, letters, and personal visits, the memoir explores the issues that plague the criminal justice system. Remain Free is a brutally honest expression of humanity existing in even the darkest of places. Co-hosted by the Boston Public Library, Kavita Chhibber.com, and the South Asian Arts and Cultural Council.

6. Lowell Lecture 

     Bernice King - Minister, Attorney & Daughter of

     Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

     May 10, 2018 at 6 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.

     Boston Public Library - Rabb Lecture Hall
     700 Boylston Street Boston, MA 02116

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Nationally and internationally known as one of the most powerful, motivating, and life changing speakers,    Bernice A. King leaves her audiences spell bound and challenges people to raise the standard. Born the youngest daughter of Coretta Scott King and the late Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., King is a graduate of Spelman College with a Bachelor of Arts degree in psychology and a Masters of Divinity and Doctorate of Law degrees from Emory University. She has also received an honorary Doctorate of Divinity degree from Wesley College. She is currently a member of the State Bar of Georgia. 

To participate in a week long (July 24-31, 2020) virtual tour of a "justice system" exhibit, click on the MORE page to view the Flyer. The Zoom link for each session will appear here.     

For more information, or to host a screening of The Innocent Convicts film, contact info@theinnocentconvicts.org.  

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