Events

FREE! Families Film Forum Presents:

Back to back “Black and Blue” – the discussion of police/community relations in our neighborhoods continues with King Downing, Kahlil Khan from Movement in Motion and other artists/activists fighting police repression.

Black and Blue: LEGENDS OF THE HIP HOP COP

Retired first-grade NYPD detective Derrick Parker established a so-called "Rap Intel" unit following the murder of Notorious B.I.G. in 1997. By 2004, word of Parker's secret unit was leaked to the press, unleashing a firestorm of controversy including arguments that the NYPD's rap unit blurred the line between monitoring and profiling.