Represent Justice Screening: For Venida, For Kalief

​Join Anew and Represent Justice for a special screening and discussion in honor of the 10 year anniversary or Venida Browder’s death on October 14, 2016.

​For Venida, For Kalief debuts the poetry of Venida Brodnax Browder, mother of Kalief Browder who at age 16 was sent to New York City ’s notorious Rikers Island jail complex for allegedly stealing a backpack. After three years on Rikers with one year of solitary confinement, he was released at age 20 without charge, but he later committed suicide at the age of 22.

​By taking us on a poetic journey between past, present, and future, the film exposes systemic injustice while centering on a mother’s unwavering love, a family’s path toward healing, and a community determined to see the end of solitary confinement and see the closure of the notorious Rikers Island Jail transform it into a renewable energy center.

​The film lyrically weaves poetic visuals and rare archival imagery from 1970s New York featuring the Black Panthers and the Young Lords — a bold reimagining of criminal justice storytelling, while revealing how an individual’s life and afterlife can transcend boundaries to ignite social and cultural change once thought unattainable.

​Represent Justice is about using the power of storytelling to engage audiences in reimagining the legal system, and creating real demand for change

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