Please note: Registration is a two step process. 1) Register with Cheverly Village using the Red Button above, then 2) Register with the sponsor of this event using the link within this description. Cheverly Village Members may contact Coordinator at 240-770-1033 for help with registrations. 

Join the ACLU of Maryland for a premiere screening of its new documentary Free the Vote on Thursday, December 3, at 7 p.m. This event is being hosted by The Reginald F. Lewis Museum of Maryland African-American History & Culture.

After the screening, there will be a panel discussion moderated by Dr. Karsonya Wise Whitehead, award-winning host of Today with Dr. Kaye on WEAA 88.9 FM, along with panelists Qiana Johnson, executive director of Life After Release, Dr. Pippa Holloway, author of Living In Infamy: Felon Disfranchisement and the History of American Citizenship, and more to be announced.

Free the Vote takes a journey in history to show how denying the right to vote of people who are incarcerated is rooted in a deeply racist system, focusing on the stories of people who have experienced having their right to vote taken from them.
 
Dating back to the racist Jim Crow era, felony disenfranchisement laws were used in the states after the Civil War as an intentional effort to weaken the political power of Black people who had been enslaved. That time was also when the abominable effort began to incarcerate Black people who were newly freed.

People who are formerly incarcerated and advocates come together in Free the Vote to tell an American story about how not being able to vote has affected them and society, and how denying the right to vote of millions of people is rooted in this country’s racist history.

Use this link to reserve your ticket, and get specific instructions for joining the event from the ACLU 

https://www.aclu-md.org/en/events/free-vote-documentary-premiere-screening

Let’s imagine America in a different light, and create a place where the right to vote is restored for every citizen.