FILM

OUR IMAGE and the Houston Museum of African American Culture (HMAAC) present a special One Night Only Free screening of THE PREP SCHOOL NEGRO (runtime 52 minutes). Screening is at the Houston Museum of African American Culture -- There is a free museum parking lot and free street parking.

André Robert Lee and his sister grew up in the ghettos of Philadelphia. Their mother struggled to support with a minimum wage factory job. When Andre was 14 years old, he received what his family believed to be a golden ticket – a full scholarship to attend one of the most prestigious prep schools in the country. Elite education was Andre’s way up and out, but at what price? This new world cost him and his family much more than anyone could have anticipated.

In THE PREP SCHOOL NEGRO, André takes a journey back in time 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.