Film Premiere: “Thugs: The Criminalization of Black Youth”
Capri Rental
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Presented by Wayfinder Foundation and Minnesota Freedom Fund
“Thugs: The Criminalization of Black Youth” is a documentary exploring the control of Black people through racially profiled arrests and incarceration, essentially modern-day slavery, or the “New Jim Crow,” and the role it plays on Black youth across the country. This documentary will also feature Myon Burrell’s story, a man who falsely accused of murder at age 16 and was imprisoned for 18 years in Minnesota.
This event is SOLD OUT.
Questions? emanilabon7@gmail.com
Red Carpet / Reception: 6pm
Filmmakers Introduction: 7:30pm
Film Screening: 7:45 – 8:30pm
Panel Discusses the Film: 8:45 – 9:15pm
This is a free event, but please register to attend HERE.
