Four Detroit historians including three Wayne State professors will participate in an exhibition of Mats Hjelm's video installation, "White Flight", at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 9, at the Cranbrook Art Museum. History Professor Mel Small will moderate a discussion about Detroit during and since the 1967 riots. Speakers include Arthur L. Johnson, professor of educational sociology and former president of the Detroit Branch of the NAACP; political science Professor Otto Feinstein; and Detroit activist General Baker.

"White Flight" is a video that weaves vintage footage of the 1967 riots in Detroit together with contemporary video footage of the city. In 1967 Mats Hjelm's father, Lars Hjelm, a documentary filmmaker, came to Detroit to document the riots. During filming he was able to document significant rallies, speeches by Black Power leaders including Stokely Carmichael and confrontations with police.

In 1997 after his father passed away, Hjelm followed in his father's footsteps by returning to Detroit with a video camera in search of the same streets, buildings and people his father had filmed 30 years previously. Viewers say Hjelm's respectful and skillful combining of his father's film with his own contemporary footage has created a powerful work. It asks black and white America to remember the revolutionary energy of the Black Power movement and examine the current state of urban environments like Detroit.

The video installation runs through Nov. 26. Museum hours are 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Tuesday-Sunday, 11 a.m.-8 p.m. Thursday, closed Mondays.

Admission is $5 for adults, $3 for full-time students and seniors. The discussion is included with the admission.

For more information call the museum at (248) 645-3361.