Netflix is partnering up with renowned, and once in a while controversial, professor Dr. Ibram X. Kendi to provide documentaries primarily based totally on his bestselling books. They are Stamped from the Beginning and Stamped: Racism, Antiracism and You.
Both tasks may be directed with the aid of using Emmy Award-winner Roger Ross Williams (The Innocence Files, The Apollo, Life, Animated, Music with the aid of using Prudence) thru his manufacturing agency One Story Up. They may be government produced with the aid of using NAACP Image Award-winner Mara Brock Akil (Girlfriends, The Game, Being Mary Jane). Dr. Kendi can even function government producer.
Dr. Kendi commented in a statement:
“I’m elated those tasks landed at Netflix. What a great 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 dedicated to racial justice. But I’m truely elated for the visitors, for the adults and kids who may be captivated, informed, and converted with the aid of using 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 important portions of literature that surely define how deeply rooted racist thoughts are withinside the United States. I desire those movies crystallize Dr. Kendi’s message that ‘the best element incorrect with Black humans is they suppose some thing is inaccurate with Black humans’ and inspire anyone to combat for a extra equitable society. I am pleased to be partnering with Netflix to deliver Dr. Kendi’s notable paintings and vital insights to a broader audience.”
The tasks have been introduced together with an lively collection aimed 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 all America’s major 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 creator 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” became 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-prevailing “Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas,” may be directed and produced with the aid of using Oscar and Emmy Award-winner Roger Ross Williams (The Innocence Files, The Apollo, Life, Animated, Music with the aid of using Prudence) thru his manufacturing agency One Story Up and government produced with the aid of using NAACP Image Award-winner Mara Brock Akil (Girlfriends, The Game, Being Mary Jane). Dr. Kendi can even function government producer.
Here’s the legitimate synopsis for Stamped from the Beginning:
“Some Americans hang desperately to the parable that we’re residing in a post-racial society, that the election of the primary Black president spelled the doom of racism. In fact, racist notion is alive and nicely in America – extra state-of-the-art and extra insidious than ever. And as award-prevailing historian Dr. Ibram X. Kendi argues in “Stamped from the Beginning,” if we’ve any desire of grappling with this stark reality, we need to first apprehend how racist thoughts have been developed, disseminated, and enshrined in American society.”
What’s on Netflix has discovered that a part of the documentary may be filming in June 2022 in New York City, USA. The scripted factors is ready to be directed with the aid of using Roger Ross Williams.
About Stamped: Racism, Antiracism and You
Netflix’s Stamped: Racism, Antiracism and You may be a partner documentary to Stamped from the Beginning aimed toward more youthful visitors, is primarily based totally on the number 1 New York Times bestseller for teenagers of the identical call with the aid of using Dr. Kendi and Jason Reynolds, and may be directed and produced with the aid of using Roger Ross Williams and government produced with the aid of using Dr. Kendi.
Here’s the legitimate synopsis for Stamped: Racism, Antiracism and You:
“The assemble of race has continually been used to benefit 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 conjures up desire for an antiracist future. Stamped: Racism, Antiracism and You goals 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 believe they will arrive someday in 2023.