Join the Museum of the African Diaspora for their monthly series, The African Diaspora Film Club. Modeled after their African Book Club, they meet once a month to discuss a film that is viewed in advance of the discussion.

The conversation will be moderated by Cornelius Moore, co-director of California Newsreel and film series curator at MoAD. This month they will be discussing THE NEUTRAL GROUND (2021,CJ Hunt, 90 mins).

You will receive instructions to join via zoom after you sign up here. Look for an email from MoAD after you sign up, if you don’t receive it in your inbox, look in your spam or junk mail.

They will not be screening the film.THE NEUTRAL GROUND will premiere on POV (PBS) on July 5th and will be available for streaming for 30 days following the premiere. You can find the film on your local PBS station here.

Director & Writer CJ Hunt will join us for the discussion.

THE NEUTRAL GROUND documents the City of New Orleans’ fight over monuments and America’s troubled romance with the Lost Cause. In 2015, director CJ Hunt was filming the New Orleans City Council’s vote to remove four confederate monuments. But when that removal is halted by death threats, CJ sets out to understand why a losing army from 1865 still holds so much power in America.