Join us Tuesday, October 21st at 7:00 p.m. for a special screening of Nickel Boys – the Oscar-nominated film adaptation of Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel!

In honor of Whitehead’s in-person visit to Ohio U on Wednesday, October 22nd

For more info about the Colson Whitehead visit, click the link below:

Ohio University Libraries Presents: Colson Whitehead

Admission is FREE and open to the Public – Tickets are required

About the film

Elwood, a young African-American boy, is coming of age in Florida during the 1960’s Jim Crow era. Even in the midst of the tense racial attitudes that were dividing society at that time, Elwood’s future appears bright: he is awarded an opportunity to attend an HBCU’s honor’s program tuition-free. While hitchhiking to class, however, Elwood is picked up by a man driving a stolen car and the two are pulled over by the police. Elwood is unfairly arrested as an accomplice, and his hopeful trajectory through life is forever changed as he is transferred to a segregated reform school – The Nickel Academy – which is notorious for is brutal abuse of black students. He meets and befriends Turner, another student, and the two learn to rely on each other to make it through the tough environment even though their ideas about how black people should integrate into white society are very different.

Based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Colson Whitehead about the infamous “Dozier School”, and written and directed by Academy Award-nominated filmmaker RaMell Ross, Nickel Boys uses the unique approach of presenting the visual narrative of the film through the first-person perspective – in other words, through the eyes of the protagonists. The film has also been nominated for and won several prestigious awards on the film festival circuit for its script, cinematography, and direction.

Special thanks to the following organizations for sponsoring this event: Ohio University Honor’s Tutorial College, Cutler’s Scholars, University Libraries, and the Ohio U English Department

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140 MIN

Join us Tuesday, October 28th at 7:00 p.m. in support of Wrongful Conviction Day with a special event presentation sponsored by the Center for Law Justice & Culture, The Ohio Innocence Project, and The Ohio Innocence Project University Chapter

“Cells and Sunshine Laws: The Importance of Public Records to Innocence Work” with special guest speakers:

Laurese Glover, OIP Exoneree

Lorenzo Vasquez, OIP Exoneree

Kay Anderson, Executive Director of the Northwest Ohio Innocence Clinic

Pierce Reed Esq., Director of Policy and Engagement, Ohio Innocence Project

Joanna Sanchez, Esq., Staff Attorney, Exoneration Project

Tuesday, October 28th at 7:00 p.m.

Admission is FREE and open to the public – Tickets are required for entry*

*Tickets will be available to claim in-person in our lobby during normal business hours leading up to and on the evening of the event

Wrongful Conviction Day 2025 will be hosted by the OIP (Ohio Innocence Project), OIPU (Ohio Innocence Project University chapter) and the CLJC (Center for Law Justice and Culture). It will be featuring multiple guest speakers who will be traveling to Ohio University to share their experiences surrounding wrongful conviction, the effects that wrongful conviction and imprisonment have on those accused, and those close to the accused, and the work that organizations such as the OIP are doing to reverse and prevent instances of wrongful conviction from occurring in the State of Ohio.

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Join us Monday, November 3rd at 3:30 p.m. for a screening of a powerful piece of investigative journalism produced by FRONTLINE and the independent Venezuelan news organization Armando.info

This event will include a Q&A discussion with director Juan Revell and OHIO Fulbright Scholar Patricia Marcano

Admission is FREE – Tickets are required

About the film

Three years after the death of Hugo Chávez and the presidential election of Nicolás Maduro, Venezuela was in economic freefall and consumed by hunger. In 2016, President Maduro’s government responded with the CLAP program: a domestic aid initiative that was billed as providing high-quality, essential food items to Venezuelans impacted by the nation’s economic crisis — some of whom were at risk of
starvation.

This FRONTLINE documentary A Dangerous Assignment: Uncovering Corruption in Maduro’s Venezuela shows that, in fact, the CLAP program was not all that the government claimed it to be. Made in collaboration with the independent Venezuelan news site Armando.info, the documentary features groundbreaking reporting from investigative journalist Roberto Deniz and his colleagues. They revealed that the government was purchasing low-quality products for the CLAP program. The Armando.info journalists’ reporting ended up helping expose a vast corruption scandal that had benefited Maduro and other officials, spanning from Venezuela to Europe to the U.S. — and it ultimately made the journalists targets of the Maduro government.

A Dangerous Assignment: Uncovering Corruption in Maduro’s Venezuela was a finalist for the News & Documentary Emmy Award.

About the speakers

Juan Andres Ravell, director, is an audio producer and documentary director from Caracas Venezuela. In 2008, Juan co-founded El Chigüire Bipolar, a wildly popular political satire website that used humor to bypass government censorship in Venezuela. In 2018, Juan branched into investigative journalism collaborating in projects with reporters from Armando.Info, IDL Reporteros and Columbia Journalism School. Juan recently directed the investigative documentary feature “A Dangerous Assignment” for FRONTLINE PBS.

Patricia Marcano Meza is a Venezuelan editor and investigative reporter who has covered the corruption of the Maduro government for Armando.info. Her work includes covering corruption, money laundering, organized crime and human rights violations; coordinating the newsroom; and leading the Venezuelan chapter of the FinCEN Files and Pandora Papers projects. She is also an OHIO Fulbright Scholar pursuing a master’s degree in journalism at the E.W. Scripps School of Journalism. Marcano’s studies are focused on the study of data journalism, and she plans to take what she learns at Ohio University back to Venezuela to train fellow journalists so they can all improve the investigative work they are doing.

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85 MIN