Users shared with you earlier this summer that Apple had chosen to postpone Will Smith's latest film Emancipation until 2023.
He faced backlash in Hollywood as a result of the horrifying Chris Rock/Oscars slap.
Emancipation tells the "triumphant story of Peter (Smith), a man who manages to escape slave trade."
The movie is based on photographs of 'Whipped Peter,' taken during a Union Army medical examination in 1863 and first published in Harper's Weekly.
Apple and the NAACP managed to hold the film's first screening for a specific audience over the holiday in Washington D.C.
At the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation's 51st Annual Legislative Conference.
Smith and director Antoine Fuqua were both available, and a discussion panel about the film's significance decided to follow.
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