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Meryl Streep to Narrate Women’s Rights Documentary

Streep in “Suffragette”

Meryl Streep and Alicia Keys are teaming up on a short film chronicling the women’s rights movement. The former will narrate “We Rise,” and the latter’s song “We Are Here” will be featured in the project. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the doc will be screened by the New-York Historical Society to honor the centennial of women being granted the right to vote in New York.

A celebration of the women who fought for equal rights in the U.S. in the early 20th century, “We Rise” includes profiles of “suffragist and black women’s organizations leader Addie Hunton, Henry Street Settlement founder Lillian Ward, and birth control activist Margaret Sanger, to name a few,” the source writes.

“We are proud to celebrate the centennial of women’s suffrage in New York this year with a powerful new film and exhibition, each one showing how a determined group of people struggling for rights and equality can succeed in creating change,” NYHS CEO and president Dr. Louise Mirrer said Wednesday in a statement. “‘We Rise’ recounts a period of history that tends to be overlooked in textbooks, but the impact of those first decades of the 20th century leading up to women’s suffrage in New York is still felt today.”

“We Rise” will premiere November 3, which also marks the opening of “Hotbed,” the society’s latest exhibit, an exploration of the instrumental role female artists and activists played in fighting for women’s rights to cast ballots.

Streep portrayed British political activist and suffragette leader Emmeline Pankhurst in Sarah Gavron’s 2015 women’s rights drama “Suffragette.” When asked what lesson the suffragettes could teach us today, the three-time Oscar winner said, “Don’t give up or give in in the face of patronizing ridicule, amused disdain, or being ignored.”

“‘We Rise’ will play on rotation with the film ‘New York Story’ in the historical society’s ground-floor theater,” THR writes.


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