Just watched @13THFilm . @AVAETC does a powerful job of connecting history to today's mass incarceration problem. Please watch.

Watch this movie. It'll remarkably broaden your understanding of race, $$$ crime and politics in the US.

Watching 13th @netflix @AVAETC right now with friends. My 3d time. #SoPOWERFUL

Watch: 13th Documentary exploring the intersection of race, justice, and mass incarceration in the US.

Stories are a gateway to radical empathy and the greatest ones are catalysts for action. If you are seeking ways to learn about the Civil Rights Movement, lynchings, segregation, Jim Crow, and all the ways in which those have an impact on us today, here are a handful of powerful, essential, masterful films and shows that center Black lives, stories, creators, and / or performers

Boss filmmaker Ava DuVernay's powerful documentary on the prison industrial complex called “13th" made a deep impression on me. Named after the 13th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution which abolished slavery (except as punishment for a crime) the film pleads the case that our modern day incarceration is a new form of slavery.

I highly recommend watching my friend @Ava's film, 13th, to learn more about the criminalization of Black people in the United States.