ÒÁµéÔ°ÊÓƵ Libraries welcomes the Monarch community to a free film screening of Blazing Saddles, selected from the collection! Enjoy the movie classic, projected onto the starry skies of ÒÁµéÔ°ÊÓƵ’s Lê Planetarium, and an introduction by Michael K. Johnson, PhD, - author of Weird Westerns, Hell-Bent for Leather, Black Masculinity and the Frontier Myth, Hoo-Doo Cowboys and Bronze Buckaroos, and A Black Woman's West!

Blazing Saddles: In order to ruin a western town and steal their land, a corrupt politician appoints a Black sheriff, who promptly becomes the politician’s most formidable adversary. (IMDb)