TCB – The Toni Cade Bambara School of Organizing

The ICA, in partnership with the Boston Ujima Project, presents a special screening of TCB – The Toni Cade Bambara School of Organizing, a biography of the influential writer, filmmaker and cultural worker, who with humor and deep insight, inspired a generation of artists to dedicate themselves to community empowerment. The film is structured as a series of lessons on cultural organizing, gleaned from Bambara’s life and shared by her friends, colleagues and students. 

“On the thirtieth anniversary of her death, Louis Massiah has conjured the great Toni Cade Bambara back to life. Through archival footage and personal testimonies—most notably and eloquently by her friend, editor, and champion, Toni Morrison—this formidable writer and warrior for social justice blazes back into consciousness. There was simply nobody else like her.  

TCB – The Toni Cade Bambara School of Organizing offers a tonic for today’s woes and a lesson in joyousness for today’s challenges. With its propulsive jazz soundtrack and knowledge of history, Massiah’s film feeds a bone-deep hunger for inspiration.” 

—B. Ruby Rich, scholar, consultant, and member Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences 

Filmmaker Louis Massiah will be in attendance for post-screening talkback. 

View the trailer here.

Runtime: 1h 45m