ABOUT THE SPONSORS
This screening of THE RIGHT TO READ is presented by the Cuyahoga County Fatherhood Initiative, the Urban League of Greater Cleveland, the Greater Cleveland Urban Film Festival, the Metropolitan Cleveland Alliance of Black School Educators, East Cleveland City Schools, and the NAACP – Cleveland Branch.
ABOUT THE FILM
When a child can’t read, their chances of incarceration, homelessness, and unemployment increase. That’s why Oakland based NAACP activist Kareem Weaver believes literacy is one of the greatest civil rights issues of our time and is fighting for better reading instruction. “What good is winning the right to vote if we can’t even read the ballot?” Fed up with the bleak reading scores in his own community, Kareem files a petition with the Oakland Unified School District demanding change.