City Bricks Project Presents "Priority Mail"

Visit Chicago History Museum for a FREE screening of the short film Priority Mail, March 23rd at 2pm and a discussion of a grassroots movement to turn the Juneteenth holiday into an effective agent of change for our communities. Screening will be followed by a Q&A and community discussion with the filmmaker, Khosro Adam Beik, and special guests. No registration required. Priority Mail is a short documentary film written and directed by Chicago filmmaker Khosro Adam Beik that explores systemic disparities in resources among Chicago communities. In the course of the film, community members, advocates, and leaders discuss the shortage of resources in the predominantly Black and neglected community of West Garfield Park, as evidenced by data on a mural in the heart of the community. To demonstrate the disparity in postal infrastructure (i.e. a shortage of mailboxes), the group marches together to the nearest post office to mail an important letter. The letter — as announced by U.S. Representative Danny Davis — is addressed to the White House, proposing an important idea: A voluntary Juneteenth Reparations Fund, through which those paid for the federal Juneteenth holiday could opt to donate all or part of their paychecks to a national reparations fund to bring resources to Black communities. In this way, the federal holiday will tangibly benefit Black communities, bringing results such as jobs, schools, supermarkets, and banks — avenues to enhanced life outcomes and generational wealth-building.

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