Columnist and former NBA All-Star Kareem Abdul-Jabbar will be executive producing Fight the Power: The Protests That Changed America with Deborah Morales for the A+E Networks History Channel, according to deadline.com.
The one-hour documentary will examine the effect key protests have had over time on the evolution of America to explore the question: Does the arc of the moral universe bend toward justice when pressure is applied?
Fight the Power is produced by Six West Media with Abdul-Jabbar and Morales exec producing via Iconomy Multi-Media & Entertainment.
“The history of protest in America is also the history of social progress,” Abdul-Jabbar said.
Read more: https://thegrio.com/2021/03/04/kareem-abdul-jabbar-social-progress-documentary/
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Obviously if we don’t tell our stories someone else will or they will be ignored all together. I am glad to see people like Kareem, Blair Underwood, Alicia Keys, John Legend, etc. producing these stories