Netflix is partnering up with renowned, and on occasion controversial, professor Dr. Ibram X. Kendi to supply documentaries primarily based totally on his bestselling books. They are Stamped from the Beginning and Stamped: Racism, Antiracism and You.
Both tasks can be directed via way of means of Emmy Award-winner Roger Ross Williams (The Innocence Files, The Apollo, Life, Animated, Music via way of means of Prudence) via his manufacturing employer One Story Up. They can be govt produced via way of means of NAACP Image Award-winner Mara Brock Akil (Girlfriends, The Game, Being Mary Jane). Dr. Kendi will even function govt producer.
Dr. Kendi commented in a statement:
“I’m elated those tasks landed at Netflix. What a exceptional partner. I’m elated to paintings with Roger Ross Williams, Mara Brock Akil, and Chris Nee. They are such ambitious, innovative, and passionate creators who’re devoted to racial justice. But I’m truly elated for the visitors, for the adults and kids who can be captivated, informed, and converted via way of means of those tasks.”
Director Roger Ross Williams added:
“Dr. Ibram X. Kendi’s ‘Stamped from the Beginning’ and ‘Stamped: Racism, Antiracism and You’ are effective and vital portions of literature that virtually define how deeply rooted racist thoughts are withinside the United States. I wish those movies crystallize Dr. Kendi’s message that ‘the handiest aspect incorrect with Black humans is they suppose some thing is inaccurate with Black humans’ and inspire all of us to combat for a extra equitable society. I am pleased to be partnering with Netflix to deliver Dr. Kendi’s notable paintings and critical insights to a broader audience.”
The tasks have been introduced together with an lively collection geared toward younger youngsters referred to as Antiracist Baby, however Netflix canceled it together with many different lively tasks as a part of their reevaluation of content material mainly of their animation department.
Who is Dr. Ibram X. Kendi
Dr. Ibram X. Kendi is one in every of America’s principal historians and main antiracist scholars. He is the Andrew W. Mellon Professor withinside the Humanities at Boston University, and the founding director of the BU Center for Antiracist Research. He is a contributing author at The Atlantic and a CBS News racial justice contributor. Dr. Kendi is likewise the 2020-2021 Frances B. Cashin Fellow on the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University.
Dr. Kendi is the writer of many books including “Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America,” which gained the National Book Award for Nonfiction, making him the youngest ever winner of that award. “Stamped from the Beginning” changed into a New York Times bestseller, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, and nominated for a NAACP Image Award.
About Stamped from the Beginning
Netflix’s Stamped from the Beginning is a hybrid documentary/scripted function primarily based totally on Dr. Kendi’s National Book Award-triumphing “Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas,” can be directed and produced via way of means of Oscar and Emmy Award-winner Roger Ross Williams (The Innocence Files, The Apollo, Life, Animated, Music via way of means of Prudence) via his manufacturing employer One Story Up and govt produced via way of means of NAACP Image Award-winner Mara Brock Akil (Girlfriends, The Game, Being Mary Jane). Dr. Kendi will even function govt producer.
Here’s the legit synopsis for Stamped from the Beginning:
“Some Americans hang desperately to the parable that we’re dwelling in a post-racial society, that the election of the primary Black president spelled the doom of racism. In fact, racist concept is alive and properly in America – extra state-of-the-art and extra insidious than ever. And as award-triumphing historian Dr. Ibram X. Kendi argues in “Stamped from the Beginning,” if we’ve any wish of grappling with this stark reality, we have to first apprehend how racist thoughts have been developed, disseminated, and enshrined in American society.”
What’s on Netflix has found out that a part of the documentary can be filming in June 2022 in New York City, USA. The scripted factors is ready to be directed via way of means of Roger Ross Williams.
About Stamped: Racism, Antiracism and You
Netflix’s Stamped: Racism, Antiracism and You can be a partner documentary to Stamped from the Beginning geared toward more youthful visitors, is primarily based totally on the number one New York Times bestseller for teenagers of the equal call via way of means of Dr. Kendi and Jason Reynolds, and can be directed and produced via way of means of Roger Ross Williams and govt produced via way of means of Dr. Kendi.
Here’s the legit synopsis for Stamped: Racism, Antiracism and You:
“The assemble of race has usually been used to advantage and maintain power, to create dynamics that separate and silence. A partner documentary to Stamped from the Beginning, this movie exhibits the records of racist thoughts in America and evokes wish for an antiracist future. Stamped: Racism, Antiracism and You targets to take younger visitors on a race journey, exploring how we were given here, why we sense how we sense, and why the poison of racism lingers.”
What’s the discharge date for the Stamped tasks?
Netflix hasn’t showed a launch date for both of those tasks, however we consider they will arrive someday in 2023.
