Join us in Guerry Hall Auditorium for a screening and Q&A with the director Louise Woehrle, and subjects Jimmie Lee Kirkpatrick and De Kirkpatrick of “A Binding Truth”.

SYNOPSIS: They were high school classmates in 1965. Jimmie transferred his senior year from an all-Black school to an affluent white school in Charlotte – he was their first Black football star. That decision swept him into one of North Carolina’s most volatile civil rights cases, played out at the explosive intersection of football and race. De, a white student, watched that case unfold and wrote about it in his college essay application. He said it got him into Harvard. Decades later, a shocking discovery reveals secrets that would change their lives. Their story, rooted in the South, is also America’s story – one of slavery’s legacy and our current racial divide. It’s a story of healing and shows a way forward as Jimmie and De explore their binding truth.