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NEW HAVEN>> Linking young people to a greater understanding of the civil rights era is something Malcolm Welfare hopes to accomplish Sunday.
Welfare, 27, founder of The Lineage Group, will host a ‘View, Chat and Chew’ of the movie Selma.
“The hope of the View, Chat, and Chew initiative is to engage the community in positive interactions, as a form of community policing, by normalizing the practice of group economics, collective critical thinking and discussion, and the patronizing of local minority businesses all at the same time,” said Welfare, a leadership coordinator for New Haven Public Schools.
“‘Selma’ permits marginalized members of the community the time and space to look back in history that often times (is) barely touched on, grossly twisted, or just omitted altogether from history itself,” Welfare said.
“This film could give people in our cities a successful road map to activism, by linking current struggles for freedom with freedom struggles of the past,” he said.
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