{"id":20795,"date":"2021-11-15T22:56:03","date_gmt":"2021-11-16T03:56:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hunterword.com\/?p=20795"},"modified":"2022-02-23T21:59:35","modified_gmt":"2022-02-24T02:59:35","slug":"punch-9-for-harold-washington-film-review-teaser-by-greggwmorris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hunterword.com\/index.php\/punch-9-for-harold-washington-film-review-teaser-by-greggwmorris\/","title":{"rendered":"2021 DOC NYC Film Review Teaser: PUNCH 9 FOR HAROLD WASHINGTON &#8211; Part 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WrVA-Uork8c\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><span style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><span style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3><strong><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Breaking News: Additional DOC NYC screening Thursday, November 18, 9:30 p.m. at Cin\u00e9polis Chelsea, 260 W. 23rd Street.<\/span><\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><del>Saturday, November 13, 10:45 am ET @ Cin\u00e9polis Chelsea Sunday<\/del><br \/>\nNovember 14 &#8211; Sunday, November 28 &#8211; Online Screening<br \/>\nDirector: Joe Winston<br \/>\nRuntime: 105 minutes<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Director Joe Winston chronicles the historic legacy of Chicago\u2019s \ufb01rst African American Mayor, Harold Washington. PUNCH 9 FOR HAROLD WASHINGTON draws on archival footage of 1980s Chi-Town with all its corruption and racial discrimination, includes candid interviews with Rev. Jesse Jackson, David Axelrod, Valerie Jarrett.<\/p>\n<p>The film shows Washington&#8217;s political repertoire of skills and stratagems. Winston believes Washington\u2019s legacy continues to resonate for the Windy City and the nation as both confront the neverending inimical social issues that undermined the democracy.<\/p>\n<p>Winston and filmmaking producers Raymond Lambert and Sonya Jackson are unflinching in their views that racism in American has taken an uglier turn, that while minorities and women are gaining political clout they\u2019ve never had before, a showdown is inevitable.<\/p>\n<p>Chi-Towner Winston has lived his entire life in Chicago, having grown up in the south side Hyde Park neighborhood where the University of Chicago is located. When Harold Washington ran for mayor in 1983, he was 16, and Harold lived just a few blocks from his high school. The jarring, racist campaign against Washington was an eye-opener for him, and Winston wrote about it for his high school newspaper.<\/p>\n<p>Later, when Harold took o\ufb03ce, parents of friends joined his administration. &#8220;Once I was with a gaggle of friends and we crashed an event where Mayor Washington was speaking, and I shot some Super-8 movie \ufb01lm of him \u2013 just to capture a bit of Harold\u2019s inimitable speaking style,&#8221; he is quoted as saying<\/p>\n<p>The racist white backlash to Harold\u2019s mayoralty was dubbed \u201cCouncil Wars.\u201d\u00a0 As kids, we didn\u2019t truly understand the machinations of Chicago politics \u2013 but we all understood racism and injustice,&#8221; he is quoted as saying<\/p>\n<p>Years later, Barack Obama the nation\u2019s \ufb01rst African-American President. He was annoyed by so-called liberals, white believed that America\u2019s racism could be resolved by Obama\u2019s election. \u201cAre you kidding me?\u201d I would retort, \u201cDon\u2019t you remember Harold Washington?\u201d<\/p>\n<h3>End Part 1<\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Director Joe Winston chronicles the historic legacy of Chicago\u2019s \ufb01rst African American Mayor, Harold Washington. PUNCH 9 FOR HAROLD WASHINGTON draws on archival footage of 1980s Chi-Town with all its corruption and racial discrimination as well as the resilience and determination of Black Chi-Towners. IT includes candid interviews with Rev. Jesse Jackson, David Axelrod, Valerie Jarrett. The film shows Washington&#8217;s political repertoire of skills and stratagems as well as stinging betrayals, and unlikely victories.<\/p>\n<p>Winston and his filmmakers believe Washington\u2019s legacy continues to resonate for the Windy City and the nation, confronting the never ending social issues that undermined the country.<br \/>By Gregg W. Morris<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/hunterword.com\/index.php\/punch-9-for-harold-washington-film-review-teaser-by-greggwmorris\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20810,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[754,1952,1953,1954,1951],"class_list":["post-20795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-archives","tag-chi-town","tag-harold-washington","tag-raymond-lambert","tag-sonya-jackson","tag-the-windy-city"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hunterword.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hunterword.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hunterword.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hunterword.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hunterword.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20795"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/hunterword.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20795\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20816,"href":"https:\/\/hunterword.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20795\/revisions\/20816"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hunterword.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hunterword.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hunterword.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hunterword.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}