I Heard It Through the Grapevine

The story

Renowned Black writer James Baldwin retraces his time in the South during the Civil Rights Movement, reflecting with his trademark brilliance and insight on the passage of more than two decades. From Selma and Birmingham and Atlanta; to the battleground beaches of St. Augustine, Florida, with Chinua Achebe; and back north for a visit to Newark with Amiri Baraka, Baldwin lays bare the fiction of progress in post–Civil Rights America, wondering “what happened to the children” and those 'who did not die, but whose lives were smashed on Freedom Road'.

Cast & crew

James BaldwinCast

David Baldwin

David BaldwinCast

Chinua Achebe

Chinua AchebeSelf

Amiri BarakaSelf

Sterling Brown

Sterling BrownSelf

David Dennis

David DennisSelf

Hoyt Fuller

Hoyt FullerSelf

Oretha Castle Haley

Oretha Castle HaleySelf

Lonnie King

Lonnie KingSelf

Amanda Bowens Perdew

Amanda Bowens PerdewSelf

Charles Sherrod

Charles SherrodSelf

Fred Lee ShuttlesworthSelf