Battleground Georgia

  Directed by: Daresha Kyi Released: 2024 (educational) Year of Production: 2023 Running Time: 40 min Language: English Subtitle Options: English Closed Captions Subjects: American Studies ***Digital Site Licenses exclusively available via Kanopy***                    Passionate voter engagement, followed by the fury of those who spread and believed "the big lie" were dominant narratives of the U.S. elections of 2020. Ahead of the 2024 election cycle, in this installment of the Turning Point series, Battleground Georgia becomes the lens through which to view the history of racist voter suppression, the power of grass roots organizing and the tension between old institutions and new ways of thinking about what a vibrant democracy could be.             NBC Original       About the filmmaker  Daresha Kyi writes, produces, and directs both narrative and documentary films and television in Spanish and English. A graduate of NYU Film School, she recently completed Mam