MKA to Screen "The Prep School Negro"

On Tuesday, March 6 at 7:00 p.m. the MKA Upper School will present a screening of The Prep School Negro, followed by a talkback with the film's director André Robert Lee in the MKA Weiss Auditorium. This is being shown in conjunction with the school's diversity curriculum, and MKA Upper School students will experience the event the following day.

André Robert Lee and his sister grew up in the ghettos of Philadelphia. When he was 14 years old, he received what his family believed to be a golden ticket – a full scholarship to attend one of the country's most prestigious prep schools.  Elite education was Lee’s way up and out, but at what price?  While the tuition was covered, this new world cost him and his family more than anyone could have anticipated.

In The Prep School Negro, Lee takes a journey back to revisit the events of his adolescence, while also spending time with current day prep school students of color and their classmates to see how much has really changed inside the ivory tower. What he discovers along the way is the poignant and unapologetic truth about who really pays the consequences for yesterday’s accelerated desegregation and today’s racial naiveté.

This event is open to the public and free of charge.  For more information, contact Dominique Gerard at dgerard@mka.org or visit www.theprepschoolnegro.org