Co-sponsored: Screening and Discussion of “Two Town of Jasper” with Director Marco Williams

Two Towns of Jasper documents the aftermath of the 1998 murder of James Byrd, Jr., who was chained to a pick-up truck and dragged to death by three white men in Jasper, Texas. Two film crews, one black and one white, filmed the trials of the men charged with the crime and the townspeople’s reactions, then combined footage. With the deaths of James Craig Anderson, Trayvon Martin, and Jordan Davis fresh in our minds, this film’s innovative framing of Byrd’s story offers troubling insights into the persistence of racialized violence in America. Marco Williams is an award-winning filmmaker and faculty member at the Tisch School.  His newest film is The Undocumented.