Friday, March 14, 2025
10:30 am – 1 pm EDT
Scheuer Auditorium

The Neutral Ground (2021)
90 minutes
For grades 9 — 12
Screening and Q&A

In 2015, director CJ Hunt went to New Orleans to document the City Council’s vote to remove four Confederate monuments. When that removal was halted by death threats, CJ set out to understand why a losing army from 1865 still holds so much power in America. Through a mixture of investigative journalism and disarming humor, Hunt unravels America’s troubled romance with the "Lost Cause," a romanticized and distorted interpretation of the war that ex-Confederates inserted into textbooks, films, and the popular imagination. Directed by CJ Hunt.

Content Warning: This film explores white supremacy in the past and present including visual representations and discussions of slavery, lynching, and racially motivated police violence. This film contains explicit language.

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