13th Documentary

Showings

Main Theater Wed, Sep 27, 2017 6:00 PM

Description

Fort Wayne Anti-Racism Collective - ARC , Fort Wayne Center for Nonviolence and Cinema Center present a screening of the movie "13th," an in-depth look at the prison system in the United States and how it reveals the nation's history of racial inequality.

The film begins with the idea that 25% of the people in the world who are incarcerated are incarcerated in the U.S. Although the U.S. has just 5% of the world's population. "13th" charts the explosive growth in America's prison population; in 1970, there were about 200,000 prisoners; today, the prison population is more than 2 million. The documentary touches on chattel slavery; D. W. Griffith's film "The Birth of a Nation"; Emmett Till; the civil rights movement; the Civil Rights Act of 1964; Richard M. Nixon; and Ronald Reagan's declaration of the war on drugs and much more.

There will be a presentation of Dr. Jospeter M. Mbuba's research on racial inequities in policing and the criminal justice system in Fort Wayne, followed by a discussion. 

Doors open at 5:30, film starts promptly at 6:00.


FREE screening