Twin Cities Public Television goes to the United Nations

"Slavery By Another Name" will screen Wednesday night in New York.

March 28, 2012 at 6:28PM
(The Minnesota Star Tribune)
Catherine Allan's latest production, "Slavery by Another Name," looks at how blacks were abused and imprisoned on trumped-up charges between the Civil War and World War II.
(Margaret Andrews — Star Tribune/The Minnesota Star Tribune)

Catherine Allan/ photo by Jerry Holt/Star Tribune

It's one thing to get your film into a theatre. It's quite another to have it screened at the United Nations.

"Slavery By Another Name," executive produced by Twin Cities Public Television's Catherine Allan, will be shown Wednesday night at the UN as part of events observing the International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade.

Director Sam Pollard will be part of a panel discussion following the film. The production, based on the book by Pultizer-prize winning author Douglas Blackmon, aired on PBS nationwide earlier this year.

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