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 initiatives might 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) via his manufacturing agency One Story Up. They might be government produced with the aid of using NAACP Image Award-winner Mara Brock Akil (Girlfriends, The Game, Being Mary Jane). Dr. Kendi may also function government producer.
Dr. Kendi commented in a statement:
“I’m elated those initiatives landed at Netflix. What a super 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 without a doubt elated for the visitors, for the adults and kids who might be captivated, informed, and converted with the aid of using those initiatives.”
Director Roger Ross Williams added:
“Dr. Ibram X. Kendi’s ‘Stamped from the Beginning’ and ‘Stamped: Racism, Antiracism and You’ are effective and critical portions of literature that absolutely define how deeply rooted racist thoughts are withinside the United States. I wish those movies crystallize Dr. Kendi’s message that ‘the best component incorrect with Black humans is they suppose some thing is incorrect with Black humans’ and inspire all of us to combat for a greater equitable society. I am pleased to be partnering with Netflix to convey Dr. Kendi’s first-rate paintings and essential insights to a broader audience.”
The initiatives had been introduced together with an lively collection geared toward younger youngsters known as Antiracist Baby, however Netflix canceled it together with many different lively initiatives 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 essential 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” 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 characteristic primarily based totally on Dr. Kendi’s National Book Award-prevailing “Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas,” might 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) via 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 may also function government producer.
Here’s the reliable synopsis for Stamped from the Beginning:
“Some Americans dangle 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 nicely in America – greater state-of-the-art and greater insidious than ever. And as award-prevailing 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 recognize how racist thoughts had been developed, disseminated, and enshrined in American society.”
What’s on Netflix has discovered that a part of the documentary might 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 might be a associate 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 identical call with the aid of using Dr. Kendi and Jason Reynolds, and might 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 reliable 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 associate documentary to Stamped from the Beginning, this movie exhibits the records of racist thoughts in America and conjures up 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 initiatives?
Netflix hasn’t showed a launch date for both of those initiatives, however we believe they’ll arrive someday in 2023.