Join Meaningful Movies Bellevue for the three-part series entitled Connectivity Project. Each of these programs examines the ripple effects of our actions in an interconnected world.

Join us as we discuss The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America by Richard Rothstein. In this history of the modern American metropolis, Richard Rothstein explodes the myth that America’s cities came to be racially divided through de facto segregation―that is, through individual prejudices, income differences, or the actions of private institutions. Rather, The Color of Law makes clear it was the laws and policy decisions passed by governments―that actually promoted the discriminatory patterns that continue to this day.

At the height of World War I, history’s most lethal influenza virus erupted in an army camp in Kansas, moved east with American troops, then exploded, killing as many as 100 million people worldwide. It killed more people in twenty-four months than AIDS killed in twenty-four years, more in a year than the Black Death killed in a century. But this was not the Middle Ages, and 1918 marked the first collision of science and epidemic disease.