Binding Truth (Movie)

For one week, September 10-16, 2025, Pizza & Social Justice and more than a dozen community organizations, public libraries and faith-based organizations, Collective Action to Build Community (CA2BC) will host more than a dozen screenings of the 2024 documentary, A Binding Truth. This award-winning 90-minute film tells the story of two high school classmates—one black, the other white—who find themselves bound together by a history stretching back more than 150 years. It is a story of healing and shows a way forward from a troubling past. CA2BC will also host the two protagonists in the film, Jimmie Kirkpatrick and De Kirkpatrick, as well as the film's director, Louise Woehrle, in a one-hour live interview on Sunday, September 28.

To register for one or more of these screenings and discussions, and the September 28 online live interview with the two protagonists in the film, Jimmie and De Kirkpatrick, and Louise Woehrle, the film’s director, visit the CA2BC website: https://www.umcnic.org/CA2BC 

The locations and dates for the screenings are in the chart below:

DateTimeLocationDateTimeLocation Wed., Sept. 10 7pm Oak Park Sun., Sept. 14 1pm Schaumburg Thurs., Sept. 11 6:30pm Glen Ellyn Sun., Sept. 14 3pm TBD Thurs., Sept. 11 7pm Northbrook Sun., Sept. 14 4pm Libertyville Thurs., Sept. 11 7pm Oak Park Sun., Sept. 14 4pm EST Palm Coast FL Fri., Sept. 12 6pm LaGrange Tues., Sept. 16 2:30pm Chicago Fri., Sept. 12 6:30pm Whitefish Bay WI Tues., Sept. 16 6:30pm Evanston Sat., Sept. 13 12pm Chicago Tues., Sept. 16 7pm Lisle Sat., Sept. 13 1:45pm Oak Park       Sat., Sept. 13 2pm Villa Park      

Trailer for A Binding Truth (https://www.whirlygigproductions.com/a-binding-truth-film-trailer )

There is also an online streaming option for those who are unable to attend one of the screenings above. Jimmie Kirkpatrick and De Kirkpatrick's journey makes a very compelling story. Check it out.