Maisie Crow

03.14.17

ABOUT

In Tuscaloosa today, nearly one in three black students attends a school that looks as if Brown v. Board of Education never happened. Central High is one of those schools. Meet Principal Clarence Sutton Jr. as he fights to save his students from the effects of resegregation.

This short film is part of ProPublica’s investigation into the resegregation of America’s schools. Sixty years after Brown v. Board ruled “separate but equal” had no place in education, many schools have moved back in time, isolating poor black and Latino students in segregated schools.

 

Read ProPublica’s yearlong investigation into Tuscaloosa schools, among most rapidly resegregating in the country: propublica.org/tuscaloosa

Or join the conversation on race and education by sharing your story with ProPublica and the Race Card Project: propublica.org/sixwords

 

 

03.13.17

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Abortion remains legal in America but anti-abortion efforts have succeeded in making it virtually inaccessible in some places and in the Deep South, often unthinkable. At one time Mississippi had fourteen abortion clinics. Now only one remains.

Since the passage of Roe v. Wade more than four decades ago, the self-labeled “pro-life” movement has won significant cultural, political and legal battles. Now, the stigma of abortion is prolific in Mississippi and women in poverty and women of color are particularly vulnerable. Jackson is wrought with the racial and religious undertones of the Deep South and explores the nuanced nature of abortion in America’s Bible Belt.

Shannon Brewer is the director of Jackson Women’s Health Organization, the only remaining abortion clinic in the state. Barbara Beaver runs the Center for Pregnancy Choices and is a leader of the anti-abortion movement in Mississippi. April Jackson is a young mother of four children faced with another unplanned pregnancy.

Jackson is an intimate, unprecedented look at the lives of three women caught up in the complex issues surrounding abortion access. Set against the backdrop of the fight to close the last abortion clinic in Mississippi, Jackson captures the essential and hard truth of the lives at the center of the debate over reproductive healthcare in America.

SELECT PRESS

“Elegant, unsettling” Village Voice

“Crow’s debut feature film, Jackson comes at a pivotal moment for reproductive rights” New York Magazine

“Easily one of the year’s strongest documentaries” Criterion Cast

“Crow explores not only the hurdles that face a person wanting to access an abortion by depicting the clinic and its patients, but also through a second storyline shows the just as pressing question of who can a pregnant person turn to when she has no resources to draw on?” Cosmopolitan

“Strong and scrupulously even-handed” Los Angeles Times

“This well-crafted film adds to our understanding by humanizing some of the opponents.” The Hollywood Reporter

“A grim warning of what restrictive abortion legislation across the U.S. actually looks like” The Huffington Post

PROJECT WEBSITE www.jacksonthefilm.com

 

AWARDS

SOCIAL IMPACT MEDIA AWARDS
Best Documentary Feature, Winner

DENTON BLACK FILM FESTIVAL
Jury Award for Best Documentary Feature, Winner

HOT SPRINGS DOCUMENTARY FILM FESTIVAL
Jury Award for Best Documentary, Winner

INDIE MEMPHIS
Jury Award for Best Documentary, Winner
Audience Award for Best Documentary, Winner

LOFT FILM FESTIVAL
CICAE Art Cinema Award, Winner

NEW ORLEANS FILM FESTIVAL
Jury Award for Best Documentary, Winner

TALLGRASS FILM FESTIVAL
Outstanding Courage in Filmmaking, Winner

PORTLAND FILM FESTIVAL
Jury Award for Best Documentary, Winner
Audience Award for Best Documentary, Winner

SOCIAL JUSTICE FILM FESTIVAL
Gold Jury Prize for Feature Documentary, Winner

NEWBURYPORT FILM FESTIVAL
Jury Award for Best Documentary, Winner

OJAI FILM FESTIVAL
Jury Award for Best Documentary, Winner

SIDEWALK FILM FESTIVAL
Jury Award for Best Documentary, Honorable Mention