NEH Humanities Magazine Features Clemente in "Building the Just City."
"From ancient philosophy to modern-day Boston, the search for wisdom and justice finds expression in a gritty new film," the article asserts
The Winter 2022 issue of HUMANITIES, the magazine of the National Endowment for the Humanities, includes a feature story on Clemente, the film A Reckoning in Boston, and the value of the humanities. "Building the Just City," by Lydialyle Gibson, captures the power of the documentary film by James Rutenbeck in its investigation of systemic racism in the city of Boston. It also looks closely at the Clemente classroom and the way the study of the humanities impacts the lives of the film's subjects, Clemente graduates Carl Chandler and Kafi Dixon, who carry poems by Amiri Baraka and Socrates' conception of the city into their lives beyond Clemente.
“Let me tell you about the humanities,” says Chandler. “For myself, and I think for most of the people I went to school with [at Clemente], it’s a vehicle for personal empowerment—which is something that poor people and people of color really need nowadays.”
You can read the full story in HUMANITIES magazine.
