A meteoric rise began during the Civil Rights movement and continued into the current day. “13th” begins with an alarming statistic: One out of four African-American males will serve prison time at one point or another in their lives. The list feels endless and includes lynching, Jim Crow, Nixon’s presidential campaign, Reagan’s War on Drugs, That last item is a major point of discussion in “13th”, with an onscreen graphic keeping tally of the number of prisoners in the system as the years pass. “13th,” screening tonight as the Opening Night program of the 54th New York Film Festival (the first documentary ever to do so), will be available to stream on Netflix beginning October 7. Starting with D.W. Griffith’s “The Birth of a Nation”, DuVernay traces the myth of the scary Black felon with supernatural levels of strength and deviant sexual potency, a myth designed to terrify the majority into believing that only White people were truly human and deserving of proper treatment. Why are media outlets like us being punished and demonetized for writing about it? ALEC helped pioneer some of the toughest sentencing laws on the books today, like mandatory minimums for non-violent drug offenders, “three strikes” laws, and “truth in sentencing” laws. Innovation is driven by the need to make things cheaper so companies can survive, thus pushing people out of work.This seems like a ‘bad’ thing as people won’t have money to survive, but when you think about it in another way, we’ve found ways to have innovation take over having to spend our lives working. Get inside access to Collective Evolution by becoming a member of CETV.Stream content 24/7 and enjoy mind-expanding interviews, original shows, documentaries and guided programs.Our recent interview with Plandemic director Mikki Willis is now available on YouTube, an extended version is up on CETV, and it explores some deep questions surrounding the film and current human condition that is reacting to the film.Why are we so quick to reject information that doesn't align with our beliefs?We wanted to take a very different approach to this interview and ask some questions that are incredibly important to exploring the human condition behind the reaction to this film. It’s exactly why Collective Evolution is one of the world's fastest-growing conscious media and education companies providing news and tools to raise collective consciousness. Constant growth is a must, and so companies are driven to do things more inexpensively year after year, replacing human jobs with automated jobs. He and several other academics from the Stanford School of Medicine suggest that COVID-19 has a similar infection fatality rate as seasonal influenza, and published their reasoning in a study last month. DuVernay opts to show the footage, with an onscreen disclaimer that it’s being shown with permission by the families of the victims, something she did not need to seek but did so out of respect.Between the lines, “13th” boldly asks the question if African-Americans were actually ever truly “free” in this country.
2017 ESSENCE Festival Speaker Ava DuVernay’s powerful Netflix documentary, 13th, sheds light on an inhumane clause in the 13th amendment of the … What happens if people don’t contribute to society? Content is available under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike. The problem of mass incarceration, in which more than 2.3 million Americans (including a disproportionate number of black and Latino inmates) are jailed, their rights forever abrogated or tainted, is at the heart of Ava DuVernay’s sorrowful new documentary “13th” (Netflix), which has its world premiere tonight at the New York Film Festival.It traces the problem to societal attitudes and laws, enacted after Reconstruction in the era of Jim Crow, which lead to the federal government’s War on Drugs and, later, the creation of privately-operated prisons as profit-making operations. Profit becomes the major by-product of this cycle, with an organization called ALEC providing a scary, sinister influence on building laws that make its corporate members richer.Several times throughout “13th” there is a shock cut to the word CRIMINAL, which stands alone against a black background and is centered on the huge movie screen. Starting in the 1940’s, the curve of the prisoner count graph begins rising slowly though steeply. Is our consciousness being manipulated? And there is enough political blame to go around, from the Republican administrations of Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan to the Democratic administration of Bill Clinton.This year’s virulent political campaign is also put under the spotlight as a signifier of divisions in American life, magnified by TV news cameras capturing episodes of violence by one candidate’s supporters against another’s.