Special Screening of Ava DuVernay's 13TH @ The African American Museum in Philadelphia

Join The Media Mobilizing Project and ACLU-PA for a special screening of Ava DuVernay's 13TH. The screening will be followed by a panel conversation featuring

• Reggie Shuford, Executive Director, ACLU-PA
• Bryan Mercer, Executive Director, Media Mobilizing Project
• Reuben Jones, No 215 Jails Coalition
• J. Jondhi Harrell, Executive Director, The Center for Returning Citizens

Doors: 6:00 pm
Screening: 6:30 pm

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“The Oscar for this year's Best Documentary belongs to 13th, Ava DuVernay's incendiary, indelible and indispensable document about the myth of racial equality in America.” Peter Travers, Rolling Stone

More about 13TH
The title of Ava DuVernay’s extraordinary and galvanizing film refers to the 13th Amendment to the Constitution, which reads “Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States.” The progression from that second qualifying clause to the horrors of mass criminalization and the sprawling American prison industry is laid out by DuVernay with bracing lucidity.With a potent mixture of archival footage and testimony from a dazzling array of activists, politicians, historians, and formerly incarcerated women and men, DuVernay creates a work of grand historical synthesis. A Netflix original documentary.

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