HOPE Credit Union: A Bank With a Twist

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Old South
Roxie Theatre Sun, Jun 7, 2015 2:30 PM
A very White college fraternity known to fly the Confederate flag moves into a historically Black neighborhood and establishes their presence by staging an antebellum style parade. What happens next might surprise you. In the aftermath of Ferguson everyone’s talking about race, but can we speak about it openly and honestly? Or even change? What starts as a neighborhood struggle over cultural legacies in the South winds up becoming a window into the underlying dynamics of race relations in many American communities. -CM
Old South
Vogue Theatre Tue, Jun 9, 2015 9:15 PM
A very White college fraternity known to fly the Confederate flag moves into a historically Black neighborhood and establishes their presence by staging an antebellum style parade. What happens next might surprise you. In the aftermath of Ferguson everyone’s talking about race, but can we speak about it openly and honestly? Or even change? What starts as a neighborhood struggle over cultural legacies in the South winds up becoming a window into the underlying dynamics of race relations in many American communities. -CM
Film Info
Director:Micro Documentaries
Running Time:5

Description

How might we address income inequality, the civil rights issue of our time? What happens when you up-end all the negative stereotypes about banks and put them squarely in service of the community? When banks started disappearing in the Mississippi Delta, transforming low- and mid-income communities into 'bank deserts' where people couldn't get a loan or secure their savings, William Bynum turned despair into hope by founding a new sort of bank.