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27 Black Business Owners Send NYC Students to See Selma Free

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27 African-American New York Business leaders have partnered with Paramount Pictures to send New York middle school students to see new film Selma for free, reports Hollywood Reporter earlier this week.

Seventh-, eighth- and ninth-grade students in New York will be admitted to screenings of the film for free at participating theaters if they provide a student ID or report card. The initiative kicked off at 7 p.m. Thursday and runs through Jan. 19, which is Martin Luther King Jr. Day, or while tickets last.

Director Ava DuVernay excitedly shared her appreciation to the powerbrokers who have “done the unprecedented” with her Instagram following last night.

The production is a theatrical illustration of the tumultuous three-month period in 1965, when Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. led a dangerous campaign to secure equal voting rights in the face of violent opposition.

SELMA, starring David Oyelowo, Tom Wilkinson, Cuba Gooding Jr., Common, with Tim Roth and Oprah Winfrey as “Annie Lee Cooper,”  chronicles the epic march from Selma to Montgomery which culminated in President Johnson (Tom Wilkinson) signing the Voting Rights Act of 1965. This compliance is one of the most significant victories for the civil rights movement.

Selma is in theatres now.

Have you seen Selma? What are your thoughts?

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