Film Screening: “13th”

What does the passage of the 13th Amendment in 1865 have anything to do with today? Everything.

The powerful and thought-provoking documentary “13th” analyzes the criminalization of African Americans, the US prison boom, and their relationship to the abolishment of slavery via the 13th Amendment.

Co-Sponsors:

Racial Justice Leadership Team of First Universalist Church of Minneapolis is a volunteer group charged with advancing the church’s commitment to racial justice through intensive education and training of our congregation on the historical and current impacts of systemic racism and white privilege on society and the environment.

We The People MN is a group of individuals who believe in a future for this country that is pluralistic, multicultural, just, and equitable. We are concerned about the dangerous flouting of the protective ideals of the Constitution and are committed to protecting and promoting it and the principles it is based on. To do this we feel we need to understand it better so have been hosting Constitutional Community Conversations. Our next event is Pleading the 5th and A Fair Trial for All / We the People MN, Sunday March 12, 1-3 PM, Solomon’s Porch, 100 West 46th Street.