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Kim Kardashian wants everyone to know that her upcoming docu-series Kim Kardashian West: The Justice Project is not just for publicity.
Much of the Kardashian/Jenner family’s celebrity is based on their lives as socialites. The family is often called out for their inability to credit the people who contribute to their art, culture, and business ventures. Many felt that same way towards Kardashians’ recent interest in the justice system. But, the reality TV star wants her critics to know that her two-hour documentary that is set to premiere on Oxygen is not just for her own personal promotion.
In the series that is set to be released April 5, Kardashian and a team of legal experts investigate the cases of Dawn Jackson, Alexis Martin, Momolu Stewart, and David Sheppard, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The official description of the series says it “highlights Kim’s growing understanding of mandatory sentencing, the damaging problems of mass incarceration, as well as the importance of educational programs and rehabilitation efforts for a successful re-entry into society.”
Kardashian says she’s been studying for the bar in California with the help of attorney Jessica Jackson. While it’s a big change from makeup and her reality series Keeping Up with the Kardashians, she says becoming a lawyer would be an ode to her late father. “I think subconsciously having lived in a home with my attorney father [O.J. Simpson lawyer Robert Kardashian Sr.] who made me sign a contract for everything … by the time I was a teenager and he was working on the O.J. case, and I was sneaking in his office looking at all of the evidence and things I shouldn’t have been looking at, to the day that I happen to be on Twitter and see a video pop up of Alice Johnson, maybe just it was in my soul for years that that’s what I would have wanted to do,” Kardashian said during a Television Critics Association panel in January.
She mentioned that her newfound interest in the disproportionate criminalization of Black people came when she became a mother to her four children with husband Kanye West. “I’m raising four black children that could face a situation like any of the people that I help. And so, just to know that I could make a difference in my children’s lives and their friends’ lives and their children’s lives by helping to fix such a broken system, that is just so motivating for me.”
The TV star spoke to THR back in January, and she opened about the critics saying she’s only doing the documentary for attention. “Yeah, I’m absolutely not. To take time away from my kids and my life is a lot for me. I’ve turned down actual major business projects that would be really lucrative because I just don’t have the time because this takes up a lot of my time. And I choose to do that. I really can’t live with myself knowing that when I read all these letters — like, I have a stack of letters that pile up and my assistants and people will be like, ‘do you want me to read them and vet them?’ And I’m like, ‘No, no, I need to read them myself. I need to feel and understand what each person is taking their precious time out of their day to say to me,’ and that’s really important to me. If I know that I could make a difference, I just wouldn’t turn my nose and not try. I have an amazing group of attorneys that I work with that help make all of this possible. There are different groups of people that I work with depending on the state and what we can really do who really help out a lot. I love the new relationships with people that I’ve met. It’s a completely different world for me, but I love doing what I do.”
