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Gerald Early
Born April 21, 1952 (73 years)
Gerald Lyn Early is an American essayist and American culture critic, appearing and serving as a consultant on Ken Burns' documentary films Baseball, Jazz, Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson, The War, and Muhammad Ali. Currently, Early is the Merle Kling Professor of Modern letters, of English, African studies, African-American studies, American culture studies, and Director, Center for Joint Projects in the Humanities and Social Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri. He is a regular commentator on National Public Radio's Fresh Air, and his essays have appeared in numerous editions of Best American Essays series. He writes on topics as diverse as American literature, the Korean War, African-American culture, Afro-American autobiography, non-fiction prose, baseball, jazz, prizefighting, Motown, Miles Davis, Muhammad Ali and Sammy Davis Jr.
Filmography
2023 | The League · as Self - Cultural Critic |
2021 | King of Cool · as Self |
2021 | Muhammad Ali (TV Series) · as Self - Writer |
2019 | Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool · as Self - Writer |
2017 | Sammy Davis, Jr.: I've Gotta Be Me · as Self |
2016 | Jackie Robinson (TV Series) · as Self |
2011 | Philadelphia: The Great Experiment (TV Series) · as Self |
2010 | Baseball: The Tenth Inning (TV Series) · as Self |
2008 | Joe Louis: America's Hero... Betrayed · as Self |
2005 | Soul Deep (TV Series) · as Self |
2004 | Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson · as Self - Writer |
2004 | ESPN25: Who's #1? (TV Series) · as Self |
2001 | Jazz (TV Series) · as Self |
1999 | SportsCentury (TV Series) · as Self |
1995 | Sonny Liston: The Mysterious Life and Death of a Champion · as Self - Washington University |
1994 | Baseball (TV Series) · as Self |