Passing Glory

Passing Glory is a 1999 basketballdrama film produced for TNT, written by Harold Sylvester, and directed by Steve James. This movie stars Andre Braugher, Rip Torn, and Sean Squire. The film also features a speaking role by Arthur Agee, subject of the documentary Hoop Dreams, also directed by Steve James. Music composed by Stephen James Taylor.

Hired as a history teacher, Father Perry will not let the athletes in his classes be given the special treatment that theyve been used to. I teach history, he informs the headmaster when asked to take over the suddenly vacant position of basketball coach. I believe sports are overemphasized. Moreover, coming from the North, he cant understand why star black athletes dont go to the best white colleges, as they should. Down here, should and is is a long ways apart, the dad of the teams star informs him. The film includes many tangible examples of the racism then present. The blacks have to go to a separate coloreds only line at fast food outlets, and ordering a meal in the wrong place can and does get you thrown in jail.

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