Read our director, Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove, for. "A powerful testament to the redemptive powers of human nature. The Best of Enemies tells the story of Ann Atwaters surprising friendship with local Klansman, C.P. "This eloquent blend of history and advocacy journalism ends with a follow-up on the major figures and-with that rarest quality in a book on race in America-a reason for hope."- Kirkus Reviews Adding another compelling, consummately researched piece to an already substantial body of work, Best of Enemies is a cerebral, searingly insightful new play from ubiquitously prolific playwright. "A well-crafted portrait of the evolution of race relations in Durham, N.C.-and of America's tendency to ignore issues of class."- Publishers Weekly The best thing that can be said about The Best of Enemies, which opens Friday, is that it isn’t quite this year’s version of Green Book.Like this year’s Oscar winner, The Best. Ellis (Sam Rockwell) as co-chairs of a committee in Durham, North Carolina to decide the future of school integration in their small town. Henson) with local Ku Klux Klan leader C.P. Davidson's book provides a brilliant beginning for understanding the South's many poor sons and daughters, black and white."- Dallas Morning News The Best of Enemies is a civil-rights era drama based on actual events about the unlikely pairing of iron-willed black activist Ann Atwater (Taraji P. The Best of Enemies is a glorious work."-Studs Terkel More than that, in a time of bleakness, it sounds a note of hope. Ellis, Exalted Cyclops of the Ku Klux Klan of Durham, North Carolina, and of Ann Atwater, a black civil rights advocate, his enemy for so many years, is one of the most moving love stories I've ever come across. The Best of Enemies movie reviewed Close A new Hollywood film explores the unusual alliance that emerges between a local leader of the white supremacist group, the Ku Klux Klan, and a black. At last Osha Gray Davidson has done the job. "For eighty years we've waited for a reply to Birth of a Nation. Ellis and Ann Atwater.”- Midwest Book Review The history of the civil rights movement is chronicled throughout the book, with a focus on the lives of C.P. “Postbellum realities of life in Dixie through the lens of Durham, North Carolina, are shared in this narrative nonfiction book.
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