Celebrate Black History Month with a FREE screening and panel discussion of The Nature of Things: Secret Agents of the Underground Railroad, presented by Attraction, Black Screen Office and CBC. Secret Agents of the Underground Railroad is a revealing, scientific exploration of how a Niagara Falls hotel, The Cataract House, became the focal point for a 19th-century North American Black Resistance movement. Host Anthony Morgan meets a team of archaeologists who unearth stories about how the hotel’s head waiter, John Morrison, and his seemingly innocuous Black wait staff covertly orchestrated Freedom Seekers’ escapes to Canada.
An engaging panel Q&A, moderated by Black Screen Office Executive Director and Co-Founder Joan Jenkinson, will feature key members of the documentary team:Â Saladin Allah, educator, activist, descendent of a freedom seeker, and community liaison at the Niagara Falls Underground Railroad Heritage Center; Director Adrian Callender, Host Anthony Morgan, and Executive Producer Richard Jean-Baptiste.
