BONUS | Stanley Nelson, Producer of "After Jackie"

Black Diamonds

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History, Baseball, Black History, Sports, Negro Leagues, Documentary, Equality, Society & Culture, Civil Rights

4.8 • 617 Ratings

🗓️ 17 June 2022

⏱️ 32 minutes

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"After Jackie" premieres Saturday 6/18 at 8 PM ET on The HISTORY Channel. Bob Kendrick sits down with award-winning filmmaker Stanley Nelson to talk about his latest project, "After Jackie", a co-production with LeBron James' Uninterrupted. "After Jackie" tells the often overlooked story of the second wave of talented Black baseball players after Jackie Robinson, including Bill White, Curt Flood and Bob Gibson, who were up next in the fight for racial equality.

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0:00.0	Stanley Nelson is an award-winning filmmaker with over 20 years of experience as a producer, director, and writer of documentary films and videos.
0:18.6	He's also the 2013 National Humanities Medal winner issued by President Barack Obama.
0:28.0	He has three primetime Emmy Awards under his belt and his litany of great films are too many to go through, but I'll name just a few amongst the notables, freedom writers from 2010, wounded knee from 2009.
0:46.6	Jonestown, the life and death of People's Temple, 2006, the murder of Emmett Till in 2003.
0:54.1	One that I am really intrigued by the black press,
0:57.2	Soldiers Without Swords in 1998.
1:00.7	I am pleased to welcome to Black Diamonds,
1:05.0	one of the producers of an extraordinarily powerful documentary
1:10.0	on Jackie Robinson and after Jackie Robinson, I'm... of an extraordinarily powerful documentary
1:10.9	on Jackie Robinson and after Jackie Robinson,
1:14.9	aptly titled after Jackie,
1:18.1	Mr. Stanley Nelson.
1:19.9	Stanley, welcome to Black Diamond.
1:22.6	Thank you.
1:23.1	It's so good to be here.
1:25.0	And let me also start by wishing you a belated happy birthday, because as we are recording this
1:31.6	today, it is my birthday as well.
1:34.4	So fellow Gemini, I appreciate you taking time out.
1:38.7	This is such an exciting project.
1:41.6	What intrigue you about Jackie's story and more importantly how you could maybe
1:49.3	tell a little different aspect of Jackie's incredible story? I mean, I think that the story of
1:58.7	the story of Jackie Robinson is obviously just so timeless and such an incredible story.
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