TELAS Cine-Foros 2026: 13th
Date and Time
Feb 23, 2026 6:00 pm
Location
Brookland
625 Monroe St NE, Washington, District of Columbia, 20017
Feb 23, 2026 6:00 pm
Brookland
TELAS invites you to learn from, connect, and mobilize together towards action and change through a series of film screenings and collective exercises focused on the themes of migration, intervention/extraction, and mass incarceration. This will be a space to deepen our understanding and analyses of systems of oppression, such as the US military complex.
All screenings are open and free of cost to the community.
Monday, Feb 23, 2026: 6-9pm: 13th
13th
A film by Ava DuVernay
THE FILM:
Filmmaker Ava DuVernay explores the history of racial inequality in the United States, focusing on the fact that the nation's prisons are disproportionately filled with African-Americans. The film refers to the 13th amendment of the United States Constitution. It breaks down the amendment’s details and informs audiences that, while the law freed slaves, Black men were still imprisoned in large numbers for minor offenses, or for nothing at all, causing oppression. Experts in the film delve into racism, mass incarceration and the prison-industrial complex throughout the late 1800s, 1900s and present day.
