newportFILM presents “John Shearer: American Moments.” A Black photographer reflects on his career inside the country’s most influential publications during the height of America’s pictorial magazine era, when his vivid images—from the deaths of JFK and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. to the Attica uprising— helped define how the nation saw itself.. Venue opens at 5 p.m., and the film begins at 8:20 p.m. newportFILM operates an a zero-waste initiative across its outdoor summer series on Aquidneck Island.