The Last Free Women

After the longest war in US History, the world watched in shock as the Taliban swept into Kabul in the morning of August 2021. Rebecca Blumenstein, a top NY Times editor, and a team scrambled to evacuate the Kabul bureau’s Afghan employees and families.

After a harrowing ordeal, a group of 124 landed in Houston, TX. The Last Free Women is an intimate portrait of four brave young women as they try to make the most of their precious freedom in America.

Their gripping account wrestles with women’s rights to basic freedoms and aspirations. Rebecca Blumenstein is President, Editorial of NBC News. She was a Deputy Managing Editor at The New York Times from 2017-2023.

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