Rooting Out Poverty Book Club - Film Showing : FRONTLINE | Growing Up Poor In America

Program Type:

Book Club, Movies, Special Event

Age Group:

Teens, Adults
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Join the Rooting Out Poverty Book Club for a special showing of FRONTLINE | Growing Up Poor In America. The viewing of this documentary is the follow up event to the book club's reading of  "Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents" by Isabel Wilkerson. As this FRONTLINE episode is an hour long, our meeting time is being pushed back to 6:00 PM.

Admission to this event is free and open to the public. This film has not been duplicated or edited.

 

From the PBS website :

"FRONTLINE | Growing Up Poor In America

Season 2020 Episode 18 | 54m 22s | Video has closed captioning.

The experience of childhood poverty against the backdrop of a pandemic and a national reckoning with racism. Set in Ohio, the film follows children and their families navigating issues of poverty, homelessness, race and new challenges due to COVID-19."

pbs.org/video/growing-up-poor-in-america-z4g8k5/