Kansas City Troost Dividing Line Documentary Considers Voting Rights

This movie premiered earlier in the month and didn't really create much of a splash which speaks to our simple contention . . .

The Civil Rights Era is at a conclusion and leaders will have to find new tactics, language and ideas to pursue he movement's worthwhile goals of equality, peaceful coexistence and universal human dignity. 

Nevertheless . . . 

Here's a glimpse at the legacy of a bygone era that only earned meager viewership online . . . Check-it:  

"For decades, Troost split Kansas City in two: a white west side and a Black east side. The 1965 Voting Rights Act promised every voice would count equally. Sixty-one years later, we went to see what that promise actually looks like on the ground, right as Missouri proposed redrawing the 5th Congressional District along that same line.

"We set out to make a film about voting rights. What we found was a street — and how one street holds an entire country's unfinished argument about who counts."

Read more via www.TonysKansasCity.com link . . .