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Win Passes To The St. Louis Advance Screening Of SILVER DOLLAR ROAD
From Academy-Award Nominee Raoul Peck, Silver Dollar Road follows the story of the Reels family as told by the matriarch Mamie Reels Ellison and her niece Kim Renee Duhon, two fierce and clear-eyed women bending to safeguard valiantly their ancestors’ land and their brothers and uncles Melvin and Licurtis, who were wrongfully imprisoned for eight years – the longest sentence for civil contempt in North Carolina history. This documentary, based on the 2019 ProPublica article, highlights the covert ways the legal system has been exploited to keep Black land ownership fragile and the racial wealth gap growing. Coming to Prime Video on October 20th.
The Advance Screening is on Wednesday, 10/18, 7pm at the B&B Creve Coeur West Olive 10 (6 PM Suggested Arrival Time)
ENTER AT THE LINK, available while supplies last: https://amazonscreenings.com/UnjTH57449
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