Director Ava DuVernay's '13TH' Netflix Documentary Addresses Racial Disparities in Incarceration

Widely-acclaimed for directing the 2014 Oscar-nominated film Selma, Ava DuVernay has been working closely with Netflix on a harrowing documentary titled 13TH--referring to the 13th amendment of the constitution. The 44-year-old filmmaker seeks to find out why the United States has the highest incarceration rate across the globe, more specifically, why African Americans are the majority race imprisoned. "The 13th is reported to take in the civil rights movement, the 1994 Crime Bill, which extende...