The 2025 March On! Festival has come to a close—and what a remarkable week it was. As journalist, anchor, and author Janet Langhart Cohen reflected, “Being with the March On! family was like being ‘home’…and I’ve sure missed ‘home.’”
March On Festival Announces Winners of the 2025 Student & Emerging Filmmaker Competition
The March On! Festival, the nation’s longest-running Civil Rights Film Festival, will feature leading figures in the fight for justice, including Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ), Joy Reid, Former Attorney General Eric Holder, Jonathan Capeheart, and others.
The March On! Festival, the nation’s longest-running Civil Rights Film Festival, will feature leading figures in the fight for justice, including Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ), Joy Reid, Former Attorney General Eric Holder, Jonathan Capeheart, and others.
Guided under a 2025 theme of: “The Right to Be Well,” March On! Festival – the nation’s longest-running civil rights film festival – deemed Washington as the place to champion health equity and wellness Sept. 15-21.
SPOTTED at the March On! Festival celebrating civil rights and culture, The Gala honoring yesterday Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.), Stanley Nelson and Marcia Smith.
D.C.’s annual Civil Rights Legacy Project, rebranded in 2024 as “March On!,” kicked off their film festival on Monday, Sept. 15 in the nation’s capital.
“At The March On! Festival, the Civil Rights movement stays alive through our actions and our artistry,” said Isisara Bey, artistic director of March On!
Experience the culture. The March On Festival, the nation’s longest running civil rights film festival is taking place across DC from September 15th thru September 21st.
