W4J – Community Film Documentary “13th”

As the kickoff to our Juneteenth Events, Washington For Justice is hosting a community film screening of Ava DuVernay’s critically acclaimed film 13th.
Ava DuVernay is a critically acclaimed film director for films such as “Origin” “Selma” and “A Wrinkle In Time.”

13th is a 2016 American documentary film that explores the prison-industrial complex, and the “intersection of race, justice, and mass incarceration in the United States”. 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 but allowed for a constitutional loophole in which black Americans became criminalized and faced involuntary servitude in the form of penal labor. After the film, there will be a conversation about it.