Overview
Based on Ta-Nehisi Coates’ #1 New York Times bestseller and originally adapted and staged by the Apollo Theater, this special combines elements of that production - including powerful readings from Coates’ book - with documentary footage from the actors’ home life, archival footage, and animation.
Cast
Ta-Nehisi Coates
Self
Angela Bassett
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Alicia Garza
Self
Jharrel Jerome
Self
Janet Mock
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Joe Morton
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Wendell Pierce
Self
Phylicia Rashād
Self
Kendrick Sampson
Self
Yara Shahidi
Self
Tariq Trotter
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Michelle Wilson
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Oprah Winfrey
Self
Media
Recommendations
Jingle Jangle: A Christmas Journey
Oppenheimer
Joker
The Suicide Squad
Titanic
Call Me by Your Name
Soul
Extraction
Enola Holmes
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood
Incredibles 2
Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn)
Mulan
Black Panther
Inside Out
Zack Snyder's Justice League
PK
The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Ex Machina
