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“DEAR EVANSTON”

Imagine if there were cameras on Rosa Parks from the earliest days of the Montgomery Bus Boycott.

DEAR EVANSTON trains the cameras on the next Rosa Parks - the “Rosa Parks of reparations.” Our story follows her as she attempts to do what the U.S. Congress, past presidents, and all of American society have been unable to accomplish for over 150 years. In the tradition of KNOCK DOWN THE HOUSE and STREET FIGHT, which captured Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Cory Booker, respectively, on the cusp of political stardom, DEAR EVANSTON captures the birth of a national figure. Alderwoman Robin Rue Simmons , of Evanston, Illinois, passed the first-ever reparations bill in U.S. history at the end of 2019, kicking off the creation of a new world in her city. Little did she know then about the new world coming in 2020.