Introducing All-American S2: Venus & Serena

All-American: Venus & Serena

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3.3 • 570 Ratings

🗓️ 29 June 2022

⏱️ 2 minutes

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Summary

While Venus and Serena Williams are revered today, twenty years ago they were both being booed. On All-American: Venus & Serena, host Cecil Harris, a veteran sports reporter who has covered the Williams sisters for nearly their entire careers, revisits the jaw-dropping moments that have defined their time in the spotlight, through interviews with retired tennis players, fans, journalists, and their former coach, Rick Macci. Through their story, All-American: Venus & Serena reveals ugly truths about how America often ignores, scorns, and resists Black excellence -- until it becomes undeniable. The new season officially starts July 13.

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0:00.0	This two girls that you see in the picture here is our
0:08.0	Serena Williams.
0:10.0	Raise your hand, Serena.
0:12.0	Venus Williams.
0:14.0	Venus and Serena Williams are tennis icons, American icons.
0:22.9	They're beloved and respected.
0:28.0	Venus Ebony Star Williams, congratulations, champion.
0:30.9	I love you back.
0:33.7	I really do.
0:36.4	But it wasn't always this way.
0:45.3	And the crowd, an American crowd, booing an American family, and you have to say that it does smack of a little bit of racism. I'm Cecil Harris. I've been covering Venus and Serena Williams as a journalist for more than 20 years.
0:52.3	And this season on All-American, we'll dig into how Venus and Serena Williams have dominated
0:58.6	tennis for decades.
1:00.7	Can you explain what the Serena Slam is?
1:05.5	She had all four major titles at the same time.
1:09.8	Serena winning her second Serena slam 12 years after her first, put her in the conversation
1:16.5	of the greatest of all time.
1:19.7	And we'll look back at how along the way, the Williams family overcame some of tennis's
1:25.2	ugliest treatment.
1:26.8	Plus, how Venus and Serena have not only succeeded in their sport, but also how they've changed it.
1:33.5	Every major manufacturer, apparel, and every major racket supplier came calling, everybody.
1:42.5	How we dress and how we see ourselves as women in the sport,
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