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The March On! Festival celebrates the untold and under-told stories of the civil rights movement through film, conversation, and performance. Our 2025 theme—March On! Health: The Right to Be Well—spotlights the intersection of health, race, and justice, while continuing to explore broader social justice issues that shape our world today.
We’re thrilled to share the lineup of March On!™ Festival events with you!
If you’ve already purchased your festival pass and are logged into the festival site, you can now start registering for individual sessions below.
You can purchase individual event tickets below—but the best value by far is a Festival Pass, which gives you all-access to the powerful programs, conversations, films, and experiences we have planned. One pass unlocks everything at your level!
Need help deciding? Check out our At-A-Glance Festival Overview to see just how much we’ve packed into this year’s festival.
Whether you join us for one event or all of them, we can’t wait to welcome you. Choose what works best for you—and come be part of the movement.
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Session: 7:30 – 8:45pm
Health has always been a civil rights issue. From the struggle to desegregate hospitals to today’s fights around Black maternal mortality, chronic disease, and structural bias in medicine, the right to be well has long been shaped by race, power, and policy.
Presentors and Speakers
- Aletha Maybank, MD, MPH: CEO/Co-Founder, Truthlight Studio
- Uché Blackstock, MD: Founder & CEO, Advancing Health Equity
- Joel Bervell, MD: Instagram’s 'Medical Mythbuster.'
- Terraya Lewis: Poet
Doors Open: 12:45pm
Session: 1:00 – 2:30pm
This program will explore the elements of Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) Amendments, focusing on key definitions, terminology, and the broad scope of what constitutes disability today. We will examine how this landmark legislation has evolved to better protect individuals with disabilities - and how it has not - using real-world examples. Panelists will discuss the proposed bill: Reproductive Health Care Accessibility Act and how they aim to address persistent gaps in care for all people with disabilities in rural and underserved urban communities.
Curated by Dara Baldwin, this session offers actionable ways for citizens to support inclusive legislation.
Speakers
- Dara Baldwin: author of To Be a Problem: A Black Woman's Survival in the Racist Disability Rights Movement
- Dr. Jamila Perritt: President & CEO, Physicians for Reproductive Health
- Chakir’ C. Underdown, Esq, PMP
Doors Open: 2:45pm
Session: 3:00 – 4:15pm
This interactive conversation brings together the most pressing health issues facing both women and men—while centering the tools and confidence needed to advocate for your own care. From prenatal health to menopause, from prostate and testicular cancer to diabetes, and from sexual health to heart and elder care, the panel addresses the full spectrum of concerns across the lifespan.
Drawing on the real stories of front-line medical experts and community leaders, this session tackles both the science and the stigma, highlighting the disproportionate burdens Black communities face and offering practical strategies for prevention, early detection, and whole-person wellness. Above all, it’s about breaking silence, removing barriers, and ensuring that every person can access the care they want and need—body, mind, and spirit.
Moderator
- Linda Goler Blount, President and CEO of Community Catalyst
Panelists
- Dr. Georges Benjamin, Executive Director of the American Public Health Association
- Dr. Stephen Thomas- Professor, Health Policy and Management, Director, Center for Health Equity, University of Maryland School of Public Health
- Dr. Sharon Malone, Ob/Gyn, Chief Medical Advisor of Alloy Women's Health
- Dr. Tamara Wilds Lawson, President and CEO of the Washington Area Women’s Foundation
Doors Open: 6:00pm
Session: 7:00pm
Tickets Are Available For Purchase at the Door
Presented biennially by Dr. Sharon Malone—renowned OB/GYN and sister of civil rights pioneer Vivian Malone Jones—this award honors contemporary women who demonstrate extraordinary courage in the fight for racial justice. Named after the first African American to graduate from the University of Alabama, the award celebrates those who, like Vivian, boldly confront injustice and inspire progress.
This year, we are delighted to honor commentator, author, television and podcast host Joy-Ann Reid, who will be joined In Conversation with the Honorable Eric Holder, former US Attorney General. With welcoming remarks from Jalaya Liles Dunn, Director of Learning for Justice at the Southern Poverty Law Center, and a special performance by actor Lisa Arrindell.
And at the top of the program, we will also proudly celebrate the creativity and vision of the winners of the Student and Emerging Filmmaker Competition.
Come early! The first 500 people to arrive receive a free copy of Joy-Ann Reid's book Medgar and Myrlie: Medgar Evers and the Love Story That Awakened America.
Partner
We are excited to partner on this event with Metropolitan AME Church, a historic national church at the vanguard of creating space for all human beings to imagine and build a just and beautiful community and world.
Featured Films
- 2024
- 56 mins
The M Factor: Shredding the Silence on Menopause” is the first US documentary
- 2023
- 86 mins
Giving birth is a battleground for too many Black women and their babies. Going behind the statistics, “Birthing Justice” places
- 2015
- 113 mins
This powerful portrait follows Dr. Denis Mukwege, the internationally renowned Congolese gynecologist awarded the 2014 Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought
- 2025
- 47 mins
An Unsettling Force is a stirring portrait of ordinary people rising to meet extraordinary times. At the heart of the Poor
- 2018
- 56 mins
Producers: Dr. Barbara Berney, Roberta Friedman and Daniel Loewenthal
Narrated by Danny Glover, POWER TO HEAL tells a poignant chapter in
- 2024
- 15 mins
Alonzo and Adrienne have breakfast and receive some wonderful news... or is it? Morning turns to night as
- 2020
- 17 mins
Signing Black in America is the first documentary about Black ASL: the unique dialect of American Sign
- 2025
- 84 mins
WE WANT THE FUNK! is a syncopated voyage through the history of funk music, spanning from African, soul,
- 2022
- 76 mins
As a visibly disabled person, filmmaker Reid Davenport sets out to make a film about how he sees the world, from
- 2025
- 70 mins
Filmed over two years and across eight cities—including Atlanta, Los Angeles, Washington, D.C., Houston, and Detroit—Wait Until Tomorrow intimately captures what
- 2023
- 16 mins
A New Voice is a firsthand look into the upward journey of citizens returning to communities after incarceration.
- 2024
- 70 mins
At once emotionally devastating and deeply heartwarming, Ondi Timoner’s latest documentary follows the day to day lives of the residents at
- 2024
- 15 mins
In the United States, 53.6 million Americans lack access to food, with African American households being disproportionately affected, as 1 out of 5
