Award-winning journalist Alex Kotlowitz at UNC: Asheville February 21

[Kristina Blackford]

Author and journalist Alex Kotlowitz holds two talks on poverty and race in America and a showing of his new documentary film, “The Interrupters,” at UNC: Asheville on February 21.

 

12:15 p.m. in Highsmith University Union: “The Things They Carry: Growing Up Poor in the World’s Richest Nation”

4 p.m. in Highsmith University Union Alumni Hall: “Bearing Witness: Storytelling and Human Rights”

7 p.m. in Highsmith University Union Alumni Hall: Film screening of “The Interrupters” followed by a Q&A session

 

Alex Kotlowitz is author of the Carl Sandburg Award-winning account, “There Are No Children Here,” the tale of two boys living in a Chicago housing project that was made into a TV movie. He has also written “The Other Side of the River,” which also explores race in America and won the Chicago Tribune’s Heartland Prize for Nonfiction.

“The Interrupters” is a film collaboration between Kotlowitz and “Hoop Dreams” director Steve James about three Chicago neighborhood “violence interrupters” and “the stubborn persistence of urban violence.”

For more information, see the press release.

For related articles, see Jonathan Kozol’s “Fire in the Ashes” and Voices for economic dignity in WNC.