A Q&A with the director of a new documentary about Negro leagues baseball, Sam Pollard.
A Q&A with Sam Pollard, director of a new documentary about the Negro baseball leagues produced by Questlove and Black Thought of the Roots.
The next day, in the decisive Game 8, the Stars’ Slim Jones pitched a 2-0 shutout, winning the title for Philadelphia. A new documentary executive produced by Questlove and Black Thought is making sure that the impact and rich history of the Negro baseball leagues is known.features newly unearthed archival footage and interviews with some of the negro leagues’ most important figures, like Satchel Paige and Hank Aaron., spoke with The Inquirer about the new documentary, how entire economies were built around the Negro baseball leagues , and why Jackie Robinson’s story was a complicated one.
It’s about knowing that there’s aspects of American culture that weren’t just about George Washington and Abraham Lincoln., the creator of the first Negro National League, designated its official motto, “We Are the Ship, All Else the Sea”,a Frederick Douglass line. What does that phrase mean to you? And what did the Negro leagues mean to Black communities?
We had an outlet. We could go to the church, we could go to the nightclub, we could go to a sports game. Assaid , people would leave church early to go to those baseball games on Sunday, all dressed up. These teams brought money into the community, other businesses, which stabilize these Black for many, many years.
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