Molly Secours

Molly Secours
Born	Massena, New York[1][2]
Nationality	American
Citizenship	United States
Occupation(s)	Filmmaker, author, activist
Known for	White 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.

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]

References

1. Joe Sylvester (April 7, 2015). "Speaker: Racial remarks by Bucknell DJs were 'wake-up call'". The Daily Item. Retrieved February 5, 2022.
2. Peter Cooper (March 15, 2018). "MOLLY SECOURS: If you've ever wondered why Nashville is such a cool place to live, well, you're looking at her. Writer, thinker, activist, survivor, filmmaker, and that's all before breakfast". Nashville Arts magazine. Retrieved February 5, 2022.
3. Ellen Wright (October 17, 2020). "Molly Secours' New Book "White Privilege Pop Quiz" Reaches #4 On Best Seller List Before Official Release Date! Renowned Nashville Writer/Filmmaker's Book Scores Big with Poignant Pop Quiz Questions that Further Racial Conversations". Ent Sun News. Retrieved February 5, 2022.
4. TONY GONZALEZ (March 14, 2016). "Bill Murray To Narrate Baseball Documentary By Nashville Filmmaker". 90.3 WPLN News. Retrieved February 5, 2022.
5. Dawn Gilbertson, Morgan Hines, Bailey Schulz (December 22, 2021). "Nervous about travel (again)? What to know about airline, hotel and cruise cancellation policies as omicron surges". USA Today. Retrieved February 5, 2022.
6. Danielle Jackson (March 9, 2021). "Author pushes a challenge to others in celebration of International Women's Day". KCTV Channel 5 News. Retrieved February 5, 2022.
7. MATT HENDRICKSON (February 3, 2017). "John Prine: For Better or Worse". Garden and Gun magazine. Retrieved February 5, 2022.
8. Staff writers (January 11, 2012). "Pam Tillis pays tribute to two American treasures in her brand-new video, 'Two Kings,' featuring rising R&B star Kris Thomas". The Boot magazine. Retrieved February 5, 2022.
9. Holly McCall and Sam Stockard (December 15, 2021). "Molly Secours". The Tennessee Lookout magazine. Retrieved February 5, 2022.
10. Nick Cafardo of the Globe Staff (January 26, 2019). "Growing rift between baseball players and owners a threat to labor peace". The Boston Globe. Retrieved February 5, 2022.
11. David Plazas with Molly Secours (February 12, 2018). "Tennessee Voices: A conversation with Molly Secours: Molly Secours, author of "White Privilege Pop Quiz," spoke with Tennessean opinion editor David Plazas". The Tennessean magazine. Retrieved February 5, 2021.
12. Jack Silverman (March 26, 2012). "Take Molly Secours' White Privilege Pop Quiz". The Nashville Scene magazine. Retrieved February 5, 2022.
13. Staff writers (January 12, 2021). "Author Eric E. Brown to Discuss his Book "Weekend Reflections" with Writer Molly Secours". The Tennessee Tribune. Retrieved February 5, 2022.
14. Staff writers (October 21, 2016). "Library talk: Is the democratic process working?". Vanderbilt University. Retrieved February 5, 2022.
15. Rebecca Rosen Lum (April 25, 2012). "Doonesbury Takes a Whack at Huffington Post. No Hard Feelings, Says HuffPo Bureau Chief". Fox City Journal. Retrieved February 5, 2022.

External links

• Just waitin' YouTube video by John Prine directed by Molly Secours
• Two Kings YouTube video directed by Secours