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Will Smith's Emancipation leaves Georgia after election-law change


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For reasons that should become quite clear once the details of the project are explained below, Will Smith and director Antoine Fuqua have moved production of their upcoming film,
Emancipation. The project had originally been slated to film in Georgia, but following the recent signing into law of restrictive voting-law initiatives by Republican Governor Brian Kemp, the movie’s production has been relocated to Louisiana.
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The announcement is only the latest in a series of actions taken in response to the recent actions by Georgia lawmakers. As we’ve previously noted, the new law is one of the most sweeping of the Republican party’s recent efforts to make American elections more “fair,” i.e., easier for them to win by making it harder for the majority of people, and especially Black people, to vote. (Yes, this is the law that includes making it a crime to hand out food and water to people waiting in ....

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