{"id":68477,"date":"2022-12-09T23:55:03","date_gmt":"2022-12-09T23:55:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alabamadigitalnews.com\/2022\/12\/new-documentary-on-fight-for-voting-rights-in-alabama\/"},"modified":"2022-12-09T23:55:03","modified_gmt":"2022-12-09T23:55:03","slug":"new-documentary-on-fight-for-voting-rights-in-alabama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alabamadigitalnews.com\/2022\/12\/new-documentary-on-fight-for-voting-rights-in-alabama\/","title":{"rendered":"New documentary on fight for voting rights in Alabama"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>EL SEGUNDO, Calif. \u2014 Travel back in time to the 1960s with the new documentary \u201cLowndes County and the Road to Black Power.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In a county with over 80% Black residents and zero Black registered voters, this film highlights the fight for the right to vote through grassroots efforts. Filmmakers Sam Pollard and Geeta Gandbhir join \u201cYour Afternoon\u2019s\u201d Kelvin Washington to discuss the deep significance of those efforts.<\/p>\n<p>The three discuss the parallels today\u2019s voting issues and the continued fight for equal voting rights for all Americans.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLowndes County and the Road to Black Power\u201d is streaming now on all digital platforms.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/__i\/rss\/rd\/articles\/CBMilgFodHRwczovL3NwZWN0cnVtbmV3czEuY29tL2NhL3Nhbi1mZXJuYW5kby12YWxsZXktdmVudHVyYS9lbnRlcnRhaW5tZW50LzIwMjIvMTIvMDkvbmV3LWRvY3VtZW50YXJ5LWhpZ2hsaWdodHMtMTk2MC1zLWZpZ2h0LWZvci12b3RpbmctcmlnaHRzLWluLWFsYWJhbWHSAQA?oc=5\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EL SEGUNDO, Calif. \u2014 Travel back in time to the 1960s with the new documentary \u201cLowndes County and the Road to Black Power.\u201d In a county with over 80% Black residents and zero Black registered voters, this film highlights the fight for the right to vote through grassroots efforts. Filmmakers Sam Pollard and Geeta Gandbhir [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":68478,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alabamadigitalnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68477"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alabamadigitalnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alabamadigitalnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alabamadigitalnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alabamadigitalnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alabamadigitalnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68477\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alabamadigitalnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alabamadigitalnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alabamadigitalnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alabamadigitalnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}