{"id":160187,"date":"2022-02-28T16:49:01","date_gmt":"2022-02-28T21:49:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.blackfilm.com\/read\/?p=160187"},"modified":"2022-02-28T16:49:03","modified_gmt":"2022-02-28T21:49:03","slug":"the-history-channel-greenlights-documentary-after-jackie-lebron-james-and-stanley-nelson-to-ep-directed-by-andre-gaines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blackfilm.com\/read\/the-history-channel-greenlights-documentary-after-jackie-lebron-james-and-stanley-nelson-to-ep-directed-by-andre-gaines\/","title":{"rendered":"The HISTORY Channel Greenlights Documentary \u2018After Jackie;\u2019 LeBron James and Stanley Nelson To EP | Directed by Andre Gaines"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.history.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">HISTORY<\/a>&nbsp;Channel greenlights the documentary&nbsp;<strong>\u201cAfter Jackie\u201d<\/strong>&nbsp;from <strong>LeBron James<\/strong> and Maverick Carter\u2019s Sports Emmy award winning brand UNINTERRUPTED, Firelight Films and in association with Major League Baseball and in collaboration with The Jackie Robinson Foundation. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Executive produced by&nbsp;<strong>James<\/strong>,<strong>&nbsp;Carter<\/strong>, Emmy Award winning and Academy Award nominated director&nbsp;<strong>Stanley Nelson&nbsp;<\/strong>and critically-acclaimed producer and director <strong>Andre Gaines<\/strong>, the two-hour film tells the story of the second wave of Black baseball players after Jackie Robinson \u2013 such as Bill White, Curt Flood and Bob Gibson \u2013 who were up next in the fight for equality. Directed by Andre Gaines and based largely on Jackie Robinson\u2019s private letters,&nbsp;<strong>\u201cAfter Jackie\u201d&nbsp;<\/strong>honors these brave men \u2013 many whose stories are unknown \u2013 who put their lives on the line to integrate baseball and demand a fairer, more inclusive America for African American athletes around the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Robinson\u2019s courageous efforts to stand against the racial prejudices he faced during his baseball career and beyond are frequently acknowledged and honored around the sport and around the country. \u201c<strong>After Jackie<\/strong>\u201d delves into the untold stories that followed, of the iconic teams like the St Louis Cardinals and players Bill White, Curt Flood and Bob Gibson who refused to let the color of their skin determine the boundaries of their successes and ultimately changed the game of baseball, and America, for the better. The film features rare interviews with former and current baseball players such as&nbsp;<strong>CC Sabathia<\/strong>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<strong>Mookie Betts,<\/strong>&nbsp;and Major League Baseball has provided unlimited access to its expansive media archive chronicling more than a century of baseball history to help tell this important story.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAs a lifelong fan of baseball, I\u2019m thrilled to be presenting this in-depth documentary on some of the lesser-known legends who followed in Jackie Robinson\u2019s footsteps to push past racial barriers in order to make Major League Baseball more inclusive,\u201d said Executive Producer Stanley Nelson. \u201cI\u2019m excited to work with Andre Gaines on this project and am grateful to The HISTORY Channel, UNINTERRUPTED, Major League Baseball, and The Jackie Robinson Foundation for making this film possible.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cEveryone knows about the bravery Jackie Robinson exhibited in April 1947, but they probably don\u2019t know about the tenacious men who followed him that continued to demand the game of baseball reflect the diversity of the world in which we live in,\u201d said Eli Lehrer, Executive Vice President and Head of Programming of The HISTORY Channel. \u201cHISTORY is proud to partner again with LeBron and Stanley and with Major League Baseball to create a powerful documentary that showcases the courage, grit and relentless determination of the baseball players that rose up after Jackie to alter the course of history for the better.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAfter Jackie\u201d is produced for The HISTORY&nbsp;Channel by UNINTERRUPTED and Firelight Films in association with Major League Baseball and in collaboration with The Jackie Robinson Foundation. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.blackfilm.com\/read\/2021\/03\/lebron-james-receives-presidents-award-at-the-52nd-naacp-image-awards\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">LeBron James<\/a>, Maverick Carter, Jamal Henderson and Philip Byron are executive producers for UNINTERRUPTED. Stanley Nelson is the executive producer for Firelight Films. Andre Gaines is executive producer and director. Eli Lehrer and Jim Pasquarella are executive producers for The HISTORY Channel. Nick Trotta is the executive producer for Major League Baseball. Matthew Rissmiller is the co-executive producer for UNINTERRUPTED.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The HISTORY&nbsp;Channel greenlights the documentary&nbsp;\u201cAfter Jackie\u201d&nbsp;from LeBron James and Maverick Carter\u2019s Sports Emmy award winning brand UNINTERRUPTED, Firelight Films and in association with Major League Baseball and in collaboration with The Jackie Robinson Foundation. Executive produced by&nbsp;James,&nbsp;Carter, Emmy Award winning and Academy Award nominated director&nbsp;Stanley Nelson&nbsp;and critically-acclaimed producer and director Andre Gaines, the two-hour film [&hellip;] <a class=\"g1-link g1-link-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.blackfilm.com\/read\/the-history-channel-greenlights-documentary-after-jackie-lebron-james-and-stanley-nelson-to-ep-directed-by-andre-gaines\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":160188,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[145,16,143],"tags":[36314,33967,36324,30117,13031,30992,15829],"reaction":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-160187","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-featured","8":"category-news","9":"category-read","10":"tag-after-jackie","11":"tag-andre-gaines","12":"tag-black-baseball-players","13":"tag-black-film-tv","14":"tag-lebron-james","15":"tag-stanley-nelson","16":"tag-the-history-channel"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v19.7 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>The HISTORY Channel Greenlights Documentary \u2018After Jackie;\u2019 LeBron James and Stanley Nelson To EP | Directed by Andre Gaines - blackfilm.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"&#039;After Jackie&#039; tells the story of the second wave of Black baseball players after Jackie Robinson \u2013 such as Bill White, Curt Flood and Bob Gibson \u2013 who were up next in the fight for equality.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.blackfilm.com\/read\/the-history-channel-greenlights-documentary-after-jackie-lebron-james-and-stanley-nelson-to-ep-directed-by-andre-gaines\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The HISTORY Channel Greenlights Documentary \u2018After Jackie;\u2019 LeBron James and Stanley Nelson To EP | Directed by Andre Gaines\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"&#039;After Jackie&#039; tells the story of the second wave of Black baseball players after Jackie Robinson \u2013 such as Bill White, Curt Flood and Bob Gibson \u2013 who were up next in the fight for equality.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.blackfilm.com\/read\/the-history-channel-greenlights-documentary-after-jackie-lebron-james-and-stanley-nelson-to-ep-directed-by-andre-gaines\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"blackfilm.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/blackfilm\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2022-02-28T21:49:01+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2022-02-28T21:49:03+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.blackfilm.com\/read\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/HISTORY-Channel-e1650306211896.jpeg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1920\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"945\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Ellen J. 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