Hip Hop Film Screening Series: "Brown Sugar"

Program Type:

Arts & Culture

Age Group:

High School, Adults, Older Adults
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Program Description

50 Years of Hip Hop

Oak Park Public Library is thrilled to be one of more than 30 organizations around the country—including libraries, museums, colleges, universities, and archives—partnering for Collections of Culture: 50 Years of Hip Hop Inside Libraries, Museums and Archives. This project was made possible in part by the Institute of Museum and Library Services. Learn more at oppl.org/hip-hop-50 »

Event Details

Brown Sugar is a 2002 American romantic comedy film written by Michael Elliott and Rick Famuyiwa, directed by Famuyiwa, and starring Taye Diggs and Sanaa Lathan. The film is a story of a lifelong friends, A&R Andre and Editor-in-Chief Sidney. The two can attribute their friendship and the launch of their careers to a single, seminal childhood moment – the day they discovered hip hop on a New York street corner. Now some 15 years later, as they lay down the tracks toward their futures, hip hop isn't the only thing that keeps them coming back to that moment on the corner.

Disclaimer(s)

Masks Encouraged

Masks for everyone age 2+ are encouraged while attending this program.