The final program of the Bridgehampton Child Care and Recreational Center’s 2024 Black Film Festival, set for Friday at 6:30 p.m., is not a film but rather a sneak preview reading by Omo Moses from his memoir, “The White Peril: A Family Memoir.”
“The White Peril,” which will be published in January by Beacon Press, is a multigenerational memoir that illuminates the Black American experience. Born in Tanzania to parents fleeing U.S. Government persecution, Mr. Moses returned to this country as a young boy.
The narrative explores the tension of growing up Black in a segregated enclave in Cambridge, Mass.; Mr. Moses’s passion for basketball, and his eventual path to social justice, teaching students in the Algebra Project along with his father, the late Bob Moses.
“We’re thrilled that Omo has agreed to read from his book as the culminating event of our 2024 Black Film Festival,” said Bonnie Cannon, the center’s executive director. “We want to emphasize the rich relationship between literature and film in creating our own narratives.”
Junot Diaz, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author, has called ‘The White Peril’ “astonishing, beautiful, courageous, luminous, heartrending, inspiring, fierce, sympathetic, provocative, necessary, unflinching, and, above all else, true.”
The reading will be followed by a question-and-answer session. The free program will be accompanied by an art exhibition organized by Faith Evans and featuring work by Neil Anthony Edwards, Andrew Caynon, and Jamal Carroll. Live Jazz will be provided by Hamptons JazzFest, and there will be refreshments.
