# Event Details - **Event Name**: Listen to Me Film Screening - **Event Start and End Date**: Fri, 14 Aug, 2026 at 07:00 pm – Fri, 14 Aug, 2026 at 09:00 pm - **Event Description**: Join us at Sankofa for a screening of Listen to Me, a documentary that explores the realities of birth, care and community.About this EventListen to Me follows three Black women as they navigate the journey to motherhood in a system not built to protect them. What begins as a documentary about the pregnancies of maternal health advocates becomes a powerful archive of grief, resilience, and healing.Woven together, these unique stories offer a profound look into the complex and layered lives of Black women and the core issues that place them at higher risk for complications from pregnancy and childbirth. Through intimate storytelling and wisdom passed from mothers to daughters, Listen to Me transcends statistics to reveal the quiet costs of survival, the weight of advocacy while grieving and the audacity of joy in the face of systemic harm.Listen to Me is a powerful call to break generational silence and center the voices of Black women. Through a lifecourse lens, the film reveals that true maternal health begins with how we protect, listen to and honor women and girls long before they ever become pregnant. Listen to Me challenges us to shift the narrative from crisis response to generational care and to reimagine maternal health as a continuum of justice, healing and radical listening.Stephanie Etienne, CNM, MPH, is a midwife, mother and advocate. She came to midwifery after many years in public health research, drug policy reform advocacy, and non-profit program management. Her passion for reproductive justice was born from her work with the Community Doula Project, a radical doula collective in New York City. She believes that reproductive justice is a human rights issue and that empowered pregnancies and births lead to empowered families. Etienne is a native New Yorker of proud Haitian descent. She lives in Baltimore, Maryland with her family. Listen to Me is her first film.Dr. Kanika Harris is the Executive Director of the National Association to Advance Black Birth, a national nonprofit committed to improving birth outcomes for Black and Indegenous families, who disproportionately face alarming disparities in maternal and infant health. Dr. Harris is a behavioral health scientist by training and sought after expert in health equity, maternal and reproductive health, and evaluation. She also previously served 3 years as the maternal health equity advisor for the State of Maryland and the public health expert for the lactation commission in Washington DC. https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events5/banners/745e3d50-981e-11f1-9a40-7b90de720125-rimg-w740-h740-dcf8f8f8-gmir.jpg - **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/washington/listen-to-me-film-screening/100001997455316622 - **Event Categories**: fitness, health-wellness, Entertainment, Workshops - **Interested Audience**: - total_interested_count: 0 ## Ticket Details - **Ticket Price Range**: min: 12.85, max: 12.85, currency: USD ## Event venue details - **city**: Washington - **state**: DC - **country**: United States - **location**: Sankofa Video, Books and Cafe - **lat**: 38.92556779999999 - **long**: -77.02311659999998 - **full address**: Sankofa Video, Books and Cafe, 2714 Georgia Avenue Northwest, Washington, United States ## Event gallery - **Alt text**: Listen to Me Film Screening - **Image URL**: https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events10/banners/21413aac4c9c6cd27fcfade7bc28f33a74d88509fd0902e42e81999ff433837f-rimg-w1200-h600-dcf8f8f8-gmir.jpg?v=1786739238 ## FAQs - **Q**: When and where is Listen to Me Film Screening being held? - **A:** Listen to Me Film Screening takes place on Fri, 14 Aug, 2026 at 07:00 pm to Fri, 14 Aug, 2026 at 09:00 pm at Sankofa Video, Books and Cafe, 2714 Georgia Avenue Northwest, Washington, United States. - **Q**: Who is organizing Listen to Me Film Screening? - **A:** Listen to Me Film Screening is organized by Departments of Afro-American Studies and English at Howard University in conjunction with Sankofa Video and Books. ## Structured Data (JSON-LD) ```json [ { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@type": "Event", "name": "Listen to Me Film Screening", "image": "https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events10/banners/21413aac4c9c6cd27fcfade7bc28f33a74d88509fd0902e42e81999ff433837f-rimg-w1200-h600-dcf8f8f8-gmir.jpg?v=1786739238", "startDate": "2026-08-14", "endDate": "2026-08-14", "url": "https://allevents.in/washington/listen-to-me-film-screening/100001997455316622", "location": { "@type": "Place", "name": "Sankofa Video, Books and Cafe", "address": { "@type": "PostalAddress", "streetAddress": "2714 Georgia Avenue Northwest", "postalCode": "20001", "addressLocality": "Washington", "addressRegion": "DC", "addressCountry": "US" }, "geo": { "@type": "GeoCoordinates", "latitude": "38.92556779999999", "longitude": "-77.02311659999998" } }, "eventAttendanceMode": "https://schema.org/OfflineEventAttendanceMode", "description": "Join us at Sankofa for a screening of Listen to Me, a documentary that explores the realities of birth, care and community.", "offers": [ { "@type": "AggregateOffer", "availability": "https://schema.org/InStock", "priceCurrency": "USD", "availabilityStarts": "2026-09-04", "availabilityEnds": "2026-08-14", "validFrom": "2026-09-04", "lowPrice": "12.85", "highPrice": "12.85", "price": "12.85", "url": "https://allevents.in/washington/listen-to-me-film-screening/100001997455316622" }, { "@type": "Offer", "availability": "https://schema.org/InStock", "priceCurrency": "USD", "availabilityStarts": "2026-09-04", "availabilityEnds": "", "validFrom": "2026-09-04", "url": "https://allevents.in/washington/listen-to-me-film-screening/100001997455316622", "price": "12.85", "name": "General Admission" } ], "organizer": [ { "@type": "Organization", "name": "Departments of Afro-American Studies and English at Howard University in conjunction with Sankofa Video and Books", "url": "https://allevents.in/org/departments-of-afro-american-studies-and-english-at-howard-university-in-conjunction-with-sankofa-vi/22355202" } ] } ] ```