If all had gone according to plan, the new documentary about former Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams and her quest to end voter suppression in America would have had its world premiere…
, and this one was high in terms of anticipation. Now instead it will be premiering in theaters on September 9 and then on September 18 on Amazon, just four days before National Voter Registration Day. It ranks as one of the most important films you might see all year, an urgent cry to conquer voter suppression and allow Americans,Americans, their entitled right to a vote. Timed for release to impact the November 3 election, this is a movie designed to go beyond just a viewing experience.
where, as the film points out, voter suppression and purging in largely African American counties might have greatly affected that outcome. On top of that, her opponent was Georgia’s Secretary of State, who was actually inof his own election, a mind-boggling situation that as one interviewee in the film points out is something you might expect from a banana republic but not America.
The filmmakers highlight the hard-won 1965 signing of the Voters Rights Act and consequentially its virtual gutting in 2013 by the 5-4 U.S. Supreme Court ruling in a landmark case called. That basically led to an undoing of the Voting Rights Act in many states, especially in the South, where strict voter ID requirements, purging of registration rolls and elimination of polling locations in poorer communities has run rampant.
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