Second Micheaux installment looks at editing techniques during African American Auteurs Series at the Gene Siskel Center

Dr. Jacqueline Stewart, associate professor of radio/television/film at Northwestern University leads the unique Auteurs Series as lecturer. Before and after the showing, Stewart guides the mixed group of students and members of the general public in a discussion about the film and the life of the filmmaker.

The African American film scholar also takes questions from the audience after the screening. The African American Auteur's Series, which debuted on the eve of Black History Month, provides a rare opportunity for audiences to celebrate and review the historical and current black experience in a context captured through film.

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