DOCUMENTARY 13TH — PLEASE WATCH AND SHARE

This is a powerful, illuminating, extraordinary, and heartbreaking documentary. Made in 2016, it is incredibly relevant to today and to the past 400 years. Please watch and share. This is the truth that has for so very long needed to be known and absorbed, healed and transformed by all of us — white America in particular. This illuminates in horrifying reality why radical systemic changes are so vitally needed. My deep prayer is that white Americans will watch 13th and courageously allow the magnitude of this suffering and injustice to permeate our being. May our broken hearts shake us all awake and compel us to unite and to fight together in every way possible for racial, economic, social, and environmental justice! — Molly

Combining archival footage with testimony from activists and scholars, director Ava DuVernay's examination of the U.S. prison system looks at how the country's history of racial inequality drives the high rate of incarceration in America. This piercing, Oscar-nominated film won Best Documentary at the Emmys, the BAFTAs and the NAACP Image Awards.

Please go here: http://www.avaduvernay.com/13th

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13th is a 2016 American documentary by director Ava DuVernay. The film explores the "intersection of race, justice, and mass incarceration in the United States;"^[3] it is titled after the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, adopted in 1865, which abolished slavery throughout the United States and ended involuntary servitude except as a punishment for conviction of a crime.

DuVernay contends that slavery has been perpetuated since the end of the American Civil War through criminalizing behavior and enabling police to arrest poor freedmen and force them to work for the state under convict leasing; suppression of African Americans by disenfranchisement, lynchings and Jim Crow; politicians declaring a war on drugs that weighs more heavily on minority communities and, by the late 20th century, mass incarceration of people of color in the United States. She examines the prison-industrial complex and the emerging detention-industrial complex, discussing how much money is being made by corporations from such incarcerations.

13th garnered acclaim from a number of film critics. It was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature at the 89th Academy Awards, and won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Documentary or Nonfiction Special at the 69th Primetime Emmy Awards.^[4]

Please go here for more information: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/13th_(film)