In We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will be Killed with Our Families, Paul Gourevitch examines the 1994 Rwanda genocide via the true-life stories of survivors. One account is about hotelier Paul Rusesabagina, a man who saved more than 1,200 refugees in the airline-owned Hotel des Milles Collines in Kigali "armed with nothing but a liquor cabinet, a phone line, an internationally famous add ress, and his spirit of resistance." Eckerd College commemorates Black History Month with a screening of Hotel Rwanda (about Rusesabagina's 100-day siege), and a talk with the man himself titled, "Hotel Rwanda: A Lesson Yet to be Learned." Screening: 7:30 p.m. Fri., Feb. 24, in Miller Auditorium. Talk: 7 p.m. Tues., Feb. 28, in Fox Hall. Eckerd College, 4200 54th Ave. S., St. Petersburg, free admission, 727-864-7979.
This article appears in Feb 22-28, 2006.