As part of the weekly Community Dialogue and Discussion, the library will highlight iconic cinematic features, highlighting specific intersections of the Black Experience.

Home, which follows a New York City man living with mental illness, shows the important services social workers and other mental health care providers give to clients. In the film Jack Hall (actor Gbenga Akinnagbe from “The Wire” and “Nurse Jackie) is a courier living with a mental illness who resides in a group home.Jack is desperate to get his own apartment so he can rebuild a relationship with his son John (actor Judah Bellamy). However, Jack has committed violent acts in the past and his ex-wife, family and doctors worry he is too emotionally fragile to live outside a group home.

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