Celebrated television powerhouse Felicia D. Henderson takes on the film festival scene, debuting the inspiring true story, “The Rebel Girls.” Abducted by white police officers after protesting a racially segregated movie theater in Americus, Georgia, in 1963, 15 Black girls were illegally imprisoned in a Civil War era stockade for 60 days. Isolated from the rest of the world, their families denied any information as to their whereabouts and forced to endure the inhumane conditions of an extended kidnapping, these heroic young women harnessed the power of imagination to fortify their spirits and minds against ruin. “The Rebel Girls” portrays their real life story. Read the full story at the San Francisco Bay View.
