On January 14, 2021, HMTC and the NAACP marked Martin Luther King, Jr. weekend with a virtual screening and discussion of Defining Moments: The Civil Rights Movement in North Hempstead, part of HMTC’s David Taub Reel Upstanders Film Series. The film documents more than a dozen oral histories of North Hempstead residents who had a role in the Civil Rights Movement. A post -screening discussion, connected the history to contemporary concerns, will include the filmmaker Alan Ginsberg, Civil Rights activist Bernice Sims, and the Program Director for Nassau County’s Office of Minority Affairs, Dexter Hedgepeth. Watch the film on your own and then view the discussion that took place: