Exclusive: Howard Bryant’s book The Heritage: Black Athletes, a Divided America, and the Politics of Patriotism, is in the works for television. Maverick TV, an All3Media America Company, will adapt the book into a multi-part docuseries, with Sacha Jenkins, and his production company Mass Appeal, attached to executive produce. Jenkins also will direct an episode. Each subsequent episode will be helmed by a different African-American filmmaker to provide a unique and personal perspective on the story.
The book, published by Beacon Press in 2018, is a powerful chronology of black athletes’ activism within a tense American political climate. The Heritage docuseries will articulate the narratives of today’s divided America from the iconic African American athletes of the 1950s and 1960s, like Jackie Robinson and Muhammad Ali whose actions created a “heritage” of black athletic political engagement, to those...
The book, published by Beacon Press in 2018, is a powerful chronology of black athletes’ activism within a tense American political climate. The Heritage docuseries will articulate the narratives of today’s divided America from the iconic African American athletes of the 1950s and 1960s, like Jackie Robinson and Muhammad Ali whose actions created a “heritage” of black athletic political engagement, to those...
- 7/8/2019
- by Denise Petski
- Deadline Film + TV
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