Netflix’s next series of adaptations look to target questions of racism. The streaming service recently announced they’ve acquired author Ibram X. Kendi’s series of books on anti-racism. The first book, “Stamped From the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America,” was followed by an updated reprint, entitled “Stamped: Racism, Antiracism and You,” and “Antiracist Baby” debuting in June of 2020.
Kendi and Mara Brock Akil, the creator of “Girlfriends,” will be executive producers on the project with Roger Ross Williams, the Oscar-winning director behind “Life Animated” and “Music By Prudence” set to direct the first in the series. “Stamped From the Beginning” is described as a hybrid of documentary and scripted feature.
Kendi himself will also get behind the camera to helm a companion documentary aimed at children. Plans for “Antiracist Baby,” an illustrated book teaching about equity and inclusion via rhyming, will be an animated...
Kendi and Mara Brock Akil, the creator of “Girlfriends,” will be executive producers on the project with Roger Ross Williams, the Oscar-winning director behind “Life Animated” and “Music By Prudence” set to direct the first in the series. “Stamped From the Beginning” is described as a hybrid of documentary and scripted feature.
Kendi himself will also get behind the camera to helm a companion documentary aimed at children. Plans for “Antiracist Baby,” an illustrated book teaching about equity and inclusion via rhyming, will be an animated...
- 1/18/2021
- by Kristen Lopez
- Indiewire
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