Ain't No Back To A

Merry-Go-Round

Documenting a significant

moment in the history of

Black-Jewish cooperation

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starts at 2:00pm.

Doors Open at 1:30

Glen Echo Amusement Park, in a wooded Maryland suburb eight miles from Washington D.C., had been strictly segregated for 50 years. Then, in the summer of 1960, a group of brave Howard University students were arrested when they tried to ride the merry-go-round.

A largely Jewish neighborhood with a concentration of Holocaust survivor and trade unionist residents abutted Glen Echo. It quickly mobilized to support the students -- joining informational pickets and providing food and shelter for the students and their supporters. Meanwhile, the American Nazi party, and other Anti-Semitic and racist groups had shown up to support Glen Echo's segregationist policies. 

Black students marched with white suburbanites for ten weeks. Picketing together led to new levels of understanding as union activists collaborated with student leaders, and future giants of the Civil Rights Movement were born. In fact, ten of the initial Freedom Riders (1961) were part of the Glen Echo campaign.  

Emmy-award winning director Ilana Trachtman and four still living black & white protesters recall Glen Echo's forgotten history.

Ain’t No Back to a Merry-Go-Round is a timely cinematic examination of this little-known Civil Rights story, and the shared struggles of Blacks and Jews against bigotry and hate.

The film runs 89 minutes 

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Everything You Wanted to Know about AI

By F. Zafar

Registration opens 9/20/24

This interactive presentation will explore AI’s remarkable evolution to the sophisticated systems that permeate our businesses and personal lives today. We will provide a clear understanding of how AI works, highlight its transformative impact across various industries, and discuss how it can meaningfully enrich our life experiences using a live demo.

F. Zafar is Principal and Head of Corporate Innovation R&D at Bessemer Trust. He has over 20 years of experience evaluating strategic technologies, leading innovation, formulating technology strategy, leading product development, and transforming business processes. He is a frequent guest speaker on emerging technology trends. Before joining Bessemer, Zafar was a senior vice president and head of technology for wealth management at AllianceBernstein. Before that, he was a management consultant at Booz Allen & Hamilton. 

Zafar earned an MBA and an MS in electrical engineering from Yale University, and a BE, summa cum laude, in electrical engineering from City College of New York. He has completed executive programs in artificial intelligence, innovation management, and technology strategy at Harvard Business School, MIT Sloan School of Management, and Wharton Business School.

Israel and War

MCA Member Steve Schreier

Israel, the Middle East and the entire world have been in a state of turmoil and confusion since Oct 7, 2023.  For the past several years Steve has presented insights, analyses and predictions about the future for Israel.

He will review his predictions and events since his last presentation in January 2024.  

In addition, he will  present his thoughts into the current state of affairs between Israel and the world and predictions about what we might look for in the next period of time

Steve's personal ties to Israel are deep-rooted. He lived on a kibbutz for a year of work-study in 1962, and moved to Israel in 1970 to conduct research on his doctorate.

Registration opens 12/12/24

The Global Geopolitical Landscape and Impact of the 2024 Election

Anthony Scaramucci

 Financier and former Trump White House official Anthony Scaramucci will discuss the current global geopolitical landscape and how it could be affected by the outcome of the 2024 Presidential election. 

Anthony Scaramucci is an American financier who briefly served as the White House Director of Communications from July 21 to July 31, 2017. 

Scaramucci worked at Goldman Sachs's investment banking, equities, and private wealth management divisions between 1989 and 1996. After leaving Goldman Sachs, he founded Oscar Capital Management, and in 2005, he founded the investment firm SkyBridge Capital.

On July 21, 2017, Scaramucci was appointed White House Director of Communication. Days into the job, Scaramucci provoked controversy after launching a strongly worded attack on members of the Trump administration in an interview with The New Yorker's Ryan Lizza that he believed was off the record. Ten days after his appointment, he was dismissed by President Donald Trump, at the recommendation of the new White House Chief of Staff, John F. Kelly. He has since been critical of Trump in the media and voiced his support for Joe Biden in 2020 and 2024 elections.