Molly Secours

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Molly Secours
Born
Massena, New York [1] [2]
NationalityAmerican
CitizenshipUnited States
Occupation(s)Filmmaker, author, activist
Known forWhite Privilege Pop Quiz
Website mollysecours.com

Molly Secours is a Nashville-based filmmaker, author, and activist. [2] [3] [4] [1] [5] [6]

Secours directed and edited the music video Just Waitin which featured the music of singer-songwriter John Prine and the images of Nashville photographer Jack Spencer. [7] She directed Two Kings, a music video about Elvis Presley and Martin Luther King Jr. which featured the singers Pam Tillis and Kris Thomas. [8] In 2022 she is making the documentary Scouting for Diamonds that focuses on the relation between talent scouts and baseball. [2] [4] [9] [10]

As an author, her book White Privilege Pop Quiz: Reflecting on Whiteness asked White people to be more introspective regarding their racial sensibility. [11] [9] [12] [6] [13] People can take her quiz on her website. [1]

Secours is a proponent of social change and democracy and women's rights. [3] [14] [6] A particular issue for her is racial inequity in such areas as criminal justice and education and employment and healthcare, and she is an advocate for greater awareness of white privilege. [15] [3] [1] She worked at The Oasis Center for Women and Girls to help African-American and Latino youth learn life skills via videos. [2] She has worked with journalist John Seigenthaler and with writer John Egerton and with civil rights activist Reverend Will D. Campbell. [2]

Secours speaks in 2009 at a Washington press conference about affordable healthcare; behind her were several congresspersons including Nancy Pelosi. Molly Secours (3748460236).jpg
Secours speaks in 2009 at a Washington press conference about affordable healthcare; behind her were several congresspersons including Nancy Pelosi.

Secours was born in Massena, New York, a town where she knew of only one Black person. [1] She moved out west to become a computer executive, and then moved to Nashville in 1994. [2] She won a grant from George Soros's Open Society Institute and used it to make documentaries with kids in juvenile justice. [2] Her documentary Welcome to My Hood appeared in 2001. [2] Secours is a cancer survivor. Her experience battling Stage IV cancer changed her outlook on life. [2]

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