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Krusade for Freedom, but Make It a Reality Show: Kim Kardashian to Make Kriminal Justice Documentary

In the House of Kardashian, no good deed goes unfilmed. Fitting then, that its most well-known member would take her recent criminal justice work and flip it into a two-hour documentary. Suggested Reading The Root 100 – 2020 Black History Month – 2022 Hip-Hop 50 Year – 2023 Video will return here when scrolled back…

In the House of Kardashian, no good deed goes unfilmed. Fitting then, that its most well-known member would take her recent criminal justice work and flip it into a two-hour documentary.

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Greenlit by Oxygen, the documentary is tentatively titled Kim Kardashian: The Justice Project, and will focus on Kardashianโ€™s recent foray into criminal justice work, Variety reports.

In 2018, the reality star and woman of โ€œso many talents [she] canโ€™t even begin to name themโ€ leveraged her fame to help convince Donald Trumpโ€™s horny ass to grant clemency to Alice Marie Johnson, who was serving a life sentence for a nonviolent drug-related offense.

Apparently inspired by how much the criminal justice systemโ€™s gatekeepers are willing to listenโ€”or outright bendโ€”to people who have the fame, money, and resources, Kardashian has expanded her efforts. A TMZ article from earlier this week reported that Kardashian and her legal team have helped set free 17 incarcerated people over the past three months.

Letโ€™s pause here to give a little credit where credit is due. Freeing 17 prisonersโ€” all of whom were serving life sentences without paroleโ€”ย is impressive and commendable and the result of a campaignโ€”90 Days of Freedomโ€”launched by Kardashianโ€™s attorney, Brittany K. Barnett, a black woman. The Decarceration Collectiveโ€™s MiAngel Cody, another black female lawyer, also collaborated on the project. If we wanted to go back even further, itโ€™s worth knowing the viral Mic video on Alice Marie Johnson that moved Kardashian to act was facilitated byโ€”you guessed itโ€”a black woman, Topeka Sam.

Will black women like these be centered in the doc that bears Kardashianโ€™s name? Given her role as executive producer, Kim could certainly control the narrative however she wants. But given how the family recently attempted to throw another black woman under the bus, the safest best is naaaaah.

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