Harlem-based Black Public Media’s series AfroPoP Digital Shorts continues on Monday, March 18, with For the Moon by Nile Price.
The short film is a coming-of-age story set in 1959 that follows a precocious 9-year-old African-American who enters an all-white library in a deeply segregated South Carolina, and refuses to leave without his books. For the Moon is based on the true story of the late astronaut Ronald McNair, who died during the launch and explosion of the Space Shuttle Challenger on January 28, 1986. The film is a prize-winner, taking the 2023 Winner Carl Lerner Award for a Film with Social Significance and the 2023 Virginia Film Festival Narrative Short Programmer’s Award.
Price is a current New York University student from Richmond, Virginia. His very moving film will inspire young people and STEM (science technology engineering and mathematics) students everywhere to reach for the moon and stars.
Viewers can watch For the Moon, part of the monthly AfroPoP Digital Shorts series, on Black Public Media’s YouTube channel, www.youtube.com/@BlackPublicMedia.
Based in Harlem, Black Public Media has funded and distributed films about the Black experience since 1979.
Photo credit: 1) Ronald McNair, Wiki. 2) Cover.
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