Molly Secours
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Molly Secours | |
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| Citizenship | United States |
| Occupations | Filmmaker, author, activist |
| Known for | White Privilege Pop Quiz |
| Website | mollysecours |
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]
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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]