Ava DuVernay's Selma now available to stream for free
In a Twitter post announcing the news, the film's director
shared her hope that the production will help people to "understand where we’ve been to strategize where we’re going," adding, "History helps us create the blueprint.""We hope this small gesture will encourage people throughout the country to examine our nation’s history and reflect on the ways that racial injustice has infected our society," a representative for Paramount said in a statement.
The Best Picture nominee covers Martin Luther King Jr.'s 1965 campaign to march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama to secure equal voting rights for black Americans. The protestors' first attempt at the march ended early on the Edmund Pettus Bridge, when local police brutally beat the protestors in an event known as Bloody Sunday.for unarmed black people killed by police, including George Floyd and Breonna Taylor, continue to sweep the nation – the continued effort of Dr. King Jr.
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