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CSUEB Diversity Center screens "Pushing the Elephant" Mar 7

Pushing the Elephant movie poster

Pushing the Elephant movie poster

  • March 3, 2011 5:12am

ASI Diversity Center at CSUEB will sponsor a free screening of "Pushing the Elephant" on Mar 7 at 12pm in its office at the new University Union.

The film chronicles the story of Rose Mapendo, who in 1998 was separated from her young daughter, Nangabire, during ethnic conflict that arose in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Surviving imprisonment, Mapendo and her other children eventually resettle in America. The film follows Mapendo's tireless work to bring peace to her divided home country and her reunification with Nangabire after more than a decade apart. Together they must face a painful past and define what it means to be a survivor, a woman, a refugee--and how to forgive. In March 2007, a panel of distinguished judges; including Hank Aaron, Paul Newman, Senator Bill Bradley, and Caroline Kennedy, named Mapendo as America's greatest hometown hero at the Volvo for Life Hero Awards.

For more information, contact the Diversity Center at 510-885-7069 or visit their Web site.

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