‘13th’
13th is director Ava DuVernay’s harrowing look into how the United States replaced slavery with incarceration in the 20th century. The Emmy Award-winning and Oscar-nominated film uses probing interviews with intellectuals, politicians, activists, and historians to explain how the over-incarceration of Black men in America isn’t a reflection of the crime rate at all. Instead it is merely how the law has been manipulated to vilify and enslave Black men in a perniciously legal way. The film features interviews with Angela Davis, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Senator Cory Booker, Jelani Cobb, and more. 13th is a blistering indictment of how politicians have used the law to keep the legacy of slavery alive.