Black History Month Movie: Since I Been Down

Come join the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) Thurston County for Black History Month to watch the movie Since I've Been Down by Director Gilda Shepard.

Since I Been Down tells the dramatic story of how an American community held captive by 1990’s punitive policies led children into gangs, violence, and for a false sense of safety, security and prosperity, this community rushed to discard the poorest, targeted brown and black youth into prisons for life.

Nearly forty years later, a model and pathway to justice and healing is being led from inside prison walls. A pathway uncovering why children turn to violence, and a model of justice to transform their lives, prisons, justice and humanity. This is a story told by those who live it.

Since I Been Down shows how policies and racism arrested the development of an American community, discarding poor youth to gangs. As adults, they try to create a model of justice that transforms their lives and the quality of life for all children.

The movie trailer is available online.