They tried to erase them. They fought back. Now it’s our turn.

The Ida B. Wells Media Defense Network presents an urgent online screening of Scandalize My Name: Stories from the Blacklist — the searing story of artists and organizers who refused to bow to McCarthyism.

Then stay for a live, no-holds-barred discussion with world-renowned historian Dr. Gerald Horne and filmmaker/educator Pamela Sporn, connecting the blacklist then to Trumpism, repression now – the new McCarthyism — and asking the only question that matters: What is to be done?

📅 TONIGHT! Fri., February 20, 2026

🕗 8 PM ET • 7 PM CT • 5 PM PT

🎟 Register: idabwellsmediadefense.org/voices/

💲 $15 suggested — no one turned away

In solidarity,

-Ida B. Wells Media Defense Network
action@IdaBWellsMediaDefense.org
https://idabwellsmediadefense.org

Scandalize My Name:
Stories from the Blacklist,
Film Showing Event

TONIGHT! Friday, Feb. 20, 8 PM EST
(7 CT / 6 MT / 5 PT / 4 AKT / 3 HT)

Suggested Donation: $15
(no one will be turned away)

After Film Talk:

with world-renowned historian Dr. Gerald Horne and
filmmaker/educator Pamela Sporn

Plus, an update on how to get involved
in defending freedom of the press.

More info and Register:

IdaBWellsMediaDefense.org/voices/

Feature Film:
Scandalize My Name: Stories from the Blacklist

Watch Trailer

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More info, donate or register without a donation:

IdaBWellsMediaDefense.org/voices/

The Ida B. Wells Media Defense Network exists to defend political speech/media and its practitioners that confront repression, and to amplify voices from the margins via the media. Our mission is to protect independent journalism and safeguard the right to dissent—especially when it challenges structures of power that exploit, divide, and dominate. See: About the Ida B. Wells MDN, The Pledge