Film Screening: Breaking the Blue Wall

Join us for a film screening of Breaking the Blue Wall which follows an activist and a lawmaker as they push to repeal the oldest and strongest police shield law in the country, Maryland’s Law Enforcement Officers’ Bill of Rights.

About the Director: Alissa Figueroa is an Emmy-nominated journalist, filmmaker and professor at Morgan State University. She previously directed the Ida B. Wells Fellowship for investigative journalists of color at Type Investigations. Prior, she was an investigative producer at Fusion, where documentaries she directed won the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award and the NABJ Salute to Excellence Award, among others. She’s a 2020-21 Knight-Wallace Reporting Fellow and 2022 Film Independent Fellow.”