Video Night: Living with Pride: Ruth Ellis @100
After a successful run, the Herland Book Club is turning into Video Night. Join us at 7 pm on Friday, March 26th, for the movie Living with Pride: Ruth Ellis @ 100. In this film, first aired on the Sundance Channel, Director Yvonne Welbon uses interviews, photographs, archival footage, and dazzling dramatic re-creations to weave a touching tale of Ellis’s long life and rich times: her first crush, her 30 years with a companion called “Babe,” and their move to Detroit. There Ellis became one of the first women in the United States to own her own printing business, and their home became a popular Midwest party spot and haven from racism for African-American lesbians and gays long before Stonewall and the modern civil rights movement.