Join us on Tuesday, August 8th at 5:30 p.m. for a screening of I, Too, the latest Humanity in Action film project feature-length documentary film from the mind of Carol Anderson. Co-produced by the Bertelsmann Foundation with generous support from the Donner Foundation, I, Too premiered on September 8, 2022 in Atlanta, GA, with further screenings in Washington, DC, Los Angeles, and Athens, Greece, and other cities. This is an in-person only event, registration required.

Due to the violence depicted in the historical incidents, this film may not be appropriate for young or sensitive viewers.

On January 6, 2021, armed insurrectionists besieged the United States Capitol in the name of patriotism. To some, it was an unexpected and shocking attack on democracy. To others, it was a noble attempt to rescue a nation on the brink of collapse. For Carol Anderson, the insurrection was a predictable coda to more than two centuries of American mythology. What happens, she asks, when we discover that the history we teach our children is comprised of fables not facts; when the gulf between soaring rhetoric and cynical policy is too wide to ignore; when white supremacy is allowed to thrive? In I, Too, we embark on a journey to shine a light on stories that reveal how we reached this inflection point in American history, as we strive to narrow the gap between who we say we are as a nation…and who we actually are.

“With passionate eloquence Carol Anderson reminds us that the violence of January 6 did not emerge from a vacuum but found a rich soil in the racial massacres that litter American history. She unearths stories that should never have been forgotten and communes with ghosts who still haunt American politics today. As so often happens, the history that we do not know and cannot see proves to be the most important history to know.” – Ron Chernow

I, Too, is a co-production of the Bertelsmann Foundation and Humanity in Action, with generous support from the Donner Foundation. The film was shot on location in Wilmington, North Carolina; Washington, DC; Ocoee, Florida; North Augusta, South Carolina; and Atlanta, Georgia. https://humanityinaction.org/films/i-too/

Dr. Judith S. Goldstein founded Humanity in Action in 1997. She has served as its Executive Director since that time. Humanity in Action organizes educational programs on international affairs, pluralism, diversity and human rights in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Denmark, France, Germany, Poland, the Netherlands and the United States. Judith received her Master's Degree and PhD in history from Columbia University. She has written several books and articles about European and American history, including works on Maine and Mt. Desert Island. She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and several boards and advisory groups.