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THE LIFE
AND TIMES OF JEAN BAPTISTE POINTE DUSABLE FOUNDING FATHER OF CHICAGO
Lecturer:
Pemon Rami, Director of Educational Services and Public Programs, DuSable Museum
of African American History
Location:
IBLA Auditorium
COST:
Admission: FREE.
Since the 70s
Pemon has been lauded for the development of television productions, films,
music concerts, documentaries, plays, and multimedia designs for theatres,
social service agencies and medical institutions across the country, Mr. Rami
has managed arts and cultural institutions in Chicago, Illinois, Phoenix,
Arizona and Los Angeles, California. As Chicagos first African-American film
casting director, Rami provided talent for the acclaimed feature films and
television movies; Blues Brothers, Mahogany, Cooley High, The Spook Who Sat By
The Door, and One In A Million. Pemon co-executive produced and directed a
weekly television series for the Black Family channel entitled Stories From The
Soul and the feature film Of Boys and Men starring Angela Bassett and Robert
Townsend released by Warner Brothers home video. In 2013, Mr. Rami was selected
an Illinois Humanities Road Scholar and was honored as one of the 50 Men of
Excellence, by the Chicago Defender Newspaper. Mr. Rami recently was selected
for induction into the Wendell Phillips High School Hall of Fame.
DATE: Thursday, March 5, 2015; TIME: 6:30pm
8:30pm
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