EXECUTIVE
SUMMARY

Today’s America has inherited generational wounds from racism, violence and poverty. Over time, the trauma of these wounds has made a dehumanizing impact on many of us as individuals and on all of us as a society. By developing a more comprehensive and thoughtful understanding of our own past, we can re-humanize the present and heal our future.

To demonstrate this process of transformation we imagine American society as a human body – a metaphor woven through out the story to better visualize historic illness and cultural stresses of race-based trauma in order to identify opportunities for healing. 

This project creates an opportunity to serve the nation in the work of healing our wounded union by creating a high-quality, expert-informed, and yet broadly-accessible documentary on what it will take to repair racial Truth, Power and Wealth in America. 

THE TEAM

ART HOOKER

DIRECTOR/WRITER/PRODUCER

Ted haddock

PRODUCER/WRITER

GREG THOMPSON

PRODUCER/TALENT

JOSHUA DUBOIS

ADVISOR

TODD BURNS

EXECUTIVE PRODUCER

LISA SHARON
HARPER

PRODUCER/TALENT

Leslie Brathwaite

MUSIC ADVISOR

Two hundred fifty years of slavery. Ninety years of Jim Crow. Sixty years of separate but equal. Thirty-five years of racist housing policy. Until we reckon with our compounding moral debts, America will never be whole.

TA-NEHISI COATES
(THE CASE FOR REPARATIONS)