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YWCA: National day of commitment to end racism, April 29

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YWCA girl racismOn Thursday, April 29, YWCA Missoula will join YWCAs across the county in observing Day of Commitment to End Racism, an annual acknowledgement of the lingering presence of racism in the United States and an opportunity to re-commit to working to end racism. Day of Commitment began as a commemoration of the 1991 Rodney King beating and riots that followed in racially-charged violence that destroyed many communities and lives in South-Central Los Angeles. In honor of Day of Commitment, YWCA Missoula will host a public screening of Anna Deavere Smith’s 90-minute documentary film “Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992” at 5:30 p.m. The film retells the story of the L.A. riots using the actual, un-edited words of people who experienced the events of April 1992, including relatives of Rodney King, the chief of the Los Angeles Police Department, and jurors who delivered the verdict that provoked the riots. The film is powerful, absorbing, and informative.

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Jodi Rave Spotted Bear is the founder and director of the Indigenous Media Freedom Alliance, a 501-C-3 nonprofit organization with offices in Bismarck, N.D. and the Fort Berthold Reservation. Jodi spent 15 years reporting for the mainstream press. She's been awarded prestigious Nieman and John S. Knight journalism fellowships at Harvard and Stanford, respectively. She also an MIT Knight Science Journalism Project fellow. Her writing is featured in "The Authentic Voice: The Best Reporting on Race and Ethnicity," published by Columbia University Press. Jodi currently serves as a Society of Professional Journalists at-large board member, an SPJ Foundation board member, and she chairs the SPJ Freedom of Information Committee. Jodi has won top journalism awards from mainstream and Native press organizations. She earned her journalism degree from the University of Colorado at Boulder.

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