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The live events may have ended, but the experience isn’t over. The 2025 March On! Festival replays are open now through September 30 at 1:20 PM EDT.
March On! Festival 2025 Replays
The live events may have ended, but the experience isn’t over! You can still watch the powerful conversations, performances, and films from this year’s March On! Festival with your existing festival pass or by purchasing a new virtual pass.
Get access to all available replays and films with our Virtual Pass for only $25—but don’t wait! Replays will only be available until September 30, 2025.
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
- 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
- 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
FILMMAKER COMPETITIONS
March On!™ Filmmaker Competition showcasing bold, original films by students and emerging voices advancing justice and equity.
Student Narrative Film Competition Finalist
I Gaze at the Sky
- 2025
- 24 mins
Producer: Maciej Ślesicki
The early days of the war in Ukraine. Ukrainian children displaced by the conflict are brought to a Russian elementary school. One of them turns out to be the long-lost nephew of Victoria, a music teacher of Ukrainian descent. Victoria awakens from the slumber of Russian propaganda and begins a desperate fight to save the boy.
Anything Helps
- 2025
- 20 mins
Producers: Marissa Koval, Skye Kupping, Alice Ye, Sarah Zhou
A homeless mother faces impossible choices as she fights to protect her daughter's innocence while struggling to secure shelter and survive on New York City's unforgiving streets.
Silence = Death
- 2025
- 16 mins
Producers: Kate Hanson, Tola Omilana
On May 21, 1990, the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power (ACT UP) stormed the DC campus of the National Institutes of Health to protest the lack of available drugs to treat AIDS. From his office, Dr. Anthony Fauci watches as the activists march around his building, chanting and shouting for his resignation. Meanwhile, a young gay filmmaker captures the events of the protest while attempting to deliver an important package to Fauci. As tensions rise and the demonstrations threaten to upend the scientists' work, Dr. Fauci is forced to reckon with his power and privilege.
Student Documentary Film Competition Finalist
SK8 LITE
- 2025
- 09 mins
The high and low points surrounding the newly burgeoning culture of skateboarding in Lagos. From winning hundreds of thousands in prize money, to board seizure for "civil disobedience," the life of a skater in Lagos is anything but uneventful.
From Rodeo to Polo: The First HBCU Polo Team
- 2025
- 19 mins
Producer: Trysten Williams
The first Black collegiate polo team at Morehouse College chases national USPA certification, training a rag-tag team of charismatic cowboys into pioneering polo stars.
Jeffery, Come Home
- 2025
- 21 mins
Jeffery Campbell has served 24 years of a 47 year sentence for a crime he knows he didn’t commit. Accused and charged for murder, he was incarcerated in 2001, leaving behind three young daughters and his mother. Determined to reunite with his family, he applies for two legal processes that could bring him closer to freedom.
Emerging Narrative Film Competition Finalist
Jean & I
- 2025
- 13 mins
Michelle, a 10-year-old survivor of the 2010 Haiti earthquake, attempts to escape both her past and her new home when she learns that her new “family” is not what they seem.
Desync
- 2025
- 12 mins
Producer: Asa Kazerani
A young Filipina filmmaker attempts to overwrite a painful memory of her mother with a perfect narrative.
Shot Clock
- 2025
- 24 mins
A college basketball star is called to stand for social justice by an activist who is forced to work with police to alleviate racial tensions in their city.
Emerging Documentary Film Competition Finalist
Teaching America
- 2025
- 21 mins
Producers: Alisa Payne, Geeta Gandbhir, Sam Pollard
Teaching America is a short documentary exploring the battle around the teaching of African-American history and studies from inside the classroom, focusing on the transformative journeys of the Arkansas teachers, students and families who are part of the very first, inaugural classes of students taking Advanced Placement African-American Studies nationwide.
Expanding Sanctuary
- 2025
- 20 mins
An immigrant mother emerges as a community leader during the historic campaign to end the sharing of the Philadelphia police database with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Expanding Sanctuary tells a rarely told story about a Latinx immigrant community’s successful journey to change legislation and protect families.
Clara’s Fruit
- 2025
- 16 mins
Producers: Rashad Mubarak, Aïdah Rasheed, Love Souley, Tristan Daley, Carter M. Stewart
As the year concludes for Mohammed Schools of Atlanta, Principal Khalil reflects on the 90 year legacy of his great-grandmother building the first Muslim private school system in the country.
March On! Festival 2025 Reading List
March On! is proud to partner with MahoganyBooks, an unapologetically Black-owned, family-run bookstore that has become a cultural hub for readers, writers, and changemakers in the African American community. Together, we celebrate the power of stories to shape communities and spark movements.
At its roots, MahoganyBooks was founded in 2007 to meet the literary needs of readers nationwide in search of books written for, by, or about people of the African Diaspora. For the first ten years, they were solely online and engaged authors, bookclubs, conferences and publishers to ensure Black Books were accessible to anyone eager to read about Black culture. In 2017, they opened the doors to their very first physical location in Washington, DC and in July 2021, in the midst of a pandemic, they opened their National Harbor location in Prince George’s County, MD.
