In addition to hosting a forum taking place at the Performing Arts Center at the regional high school on Wednesday, August 17, at 1 p.m. entitled Heard It through the Grapevine: Race and the Media in the 21st Century, Professor Charles Ogletree will, on Thursday, August 18, be accompanying the screening of the film The Presumption of Guilt. The film is based on his book, The Presumption of Guilt: The Arrest of Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Race, Class and Crime in America and directed by Hafiz Farid, the CEO of Foremost Productions in association with NoCane Inc.

Featured in the film are Charles Ogletree, Dr. Maya Angelou, Terrie Williams, Richard Taylor, Anita Hill, Larry Watson, Michelle Alexander, Larry Hamm, and Reverend Reginald Jackson.

The screenings take place on Thursday, August 18 at 12:30 p.m. at the Oak Bluffs Council on Aging and at 6 p.m. at the Oak Bluffs Library.