Notre Dame’s Lou Holtz and GQ’s Man of the Year, Colin Kaepernick. Photo Credit: Scoop B Radio

Legendary Notre Dame Head Coach Lou Holtz chats with Brandon ‘Scoop B’ Robinson about Colin Kapernick and more. Press Play Below To Listen!

Last NFL season, Colin Kaepernick refused to stand during the playing of the U.S. national anthem.

All indications point to the former San Francisco 49ers quarterback acknowledging wrongdoings of African Americans and minorities like Eric Garner and Philando Castile, who were brutally murdered by police officers.

”I am not going to stand up to show pride in a flag for a country that oppresses black people and people of color,” Kaepernick told NFL network’s Steve Wyche during the NFL’s preseason last year.

“To me, this is bigger than football and it would be selfish on my part to look the other way. There are bodies in the street and people getting paid leave and getting away with murder.”

Colin Kaepernick has extended throwing session before Broncos game. Photo Credit: Niners Wire

Kaepernick would later kneel instead of deciding to not participate during the playing of the U.S. national anthem before NFL games.

This has created a huge debate: Is it about the flag? Or is it about police brutality?

It depends on who you ask. “Why did he contribute to the fugitive in Cuba who is a police killer, who escaped,” legendary Notre Dame head coach Lou Holtz asked me during this week’s episode of Scoop B Radio. 

“That is the only contribution that I know he made.”

The contribution that Coach Holtz is referring to is a $25,000  donation Kaepernick made in April to  Assata’s Daughter, a group named after a convicted cop killer and former Black Liberation Army member, Assata Shakur.  This was part of the embattled quarterback’s  $1million charitable pledge.

As per The Daily Mail’s, Keith Griffith, Shakur is the godmother to late rapper Tupac Shakur. She was convicted in the 1973 shooting death of a New Jersey state trooper. Shakur broke out of jail and fled to Cuba.

Coach Holtz holds a 249-132-7 coaching record most notably with Notre Dame. Holtz, 80, guided his Fighting Irish team to a College National Championship win in 1988. He remains 11th on the NCAA’s all-time win list for Division I-A coaches.

Holtz believes that old school values that he learned should apply to Kaepernick’s story. “Respect the town and respect for elders,” he said. “Respect for teachers, respect for coaches, and respect for the law. I have had unfair things done and I have gotten a ticket because I have been in Oklahoma and the coach thought we beat him. And the policeman gave me a ticket.And there wasn’t a god darn thing I could do about it. You know what? Life isn’t always fair.”

Johnnie Cochran puts his arm on O.J. Simpsons shoulder. Photo Credit: ABC News

Holtz broke it down further by comparing it to a criminal case that changed the way the world’s perspective on a lot: the O.J. Simpson verdict. “I don’t believe by any stretch of the imagination that O.J. Simpson didn’t murder the people,” he said.

“However, a judge and jury of his peers found him innocent. I don’t agree with that, but you know what? That’s the judgement! So I have to accept that. This is what our country is about. It’s not always about fair.”

A year later, Kaepernick’s refusal has triggered other athletes like the Cleveland Cavaliers’ LeBron James and Dwyane Wade, the Houston Rockets’ Chris Paul and Oklahoma City Thunder forward, Carmelo Anthony to become vocal about police brutality of minorities. NFL players have also taken cues throughout the season with players like Oakland Raiders running back Marshawn Lynch sitting on a Gatorade cooler while the national anthem was played. “So many times we hear about police brutality and that it is wrong and if it is wrong they should be punished and they should be penalized and we should not overlook it,” said Holtz.

“But it is not up to us to take it into our hands and start murdering police because we don’t like what they do or anything else. Let us go believe in the system and make any changes that we need to make.”

Kaepernick, led the San Francisco 49ers to an appearance in Super Bowl XLVII and was in a contract year when he took the public stance. Now an NFL free agent, it seems that nobody is willing to take a chance on him, even a backup QB in the NFL.

Kaepernick wasn’t the only topic that Holtz chatted about on Scoop B Radio while making an appearance to promote his Lou’s Lads foundation which includes a trip to Ireland via Executive Global Tours.

Lou Holtz during his coaching days at Notre Dame. Photo Credit: The Christian Science Monitor

Coach Lou also discussed current NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell. He believes that the commissioner needs more organization on the issue of players kneeling. Holtz is not a fan of NFL Players taking a knee and has been outspoken about it. He says that players should go to inner city neighborhoods and be influential in their community, rather than kneeling. “We have 32 NFL teams in major cities,” he said.

“Why can’t we organize the players from those teams as well as from the NBA and Major League Baseball. Let’s go into the cities and teach our young children how to make good choices and how important it is to get an education. Whatever happens, we teach them to make good choices.”

Added Holtz:

“Let me give you an example last year I had some wonderful things happen to me as a former coach of Notre Dame. I had two players who played for me, admitted into the NFL Hall of Fame that is pretty good. They are proud and tremendous that is three players that played for me, last year that are in the Notre Dame Coaching staff. I have two players last year that were added to the board of trustees at Notre Dame, that is no small feat. All those athletes are afro-american and have all accomplished great things. I am not taking credit for it they all came from different backgrounds. They all had every reason to be bitter and be upset but what their parents and I like to think we contributed was: let’s make good choices with your life and what you do. If we can teach people to make better choices, we would have a much better world and a more equal world.”

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TNT’s Kenny ‘The Jet’ Smith shares with Scoop B Radio what it was like to sit on the bench during Game 5 of the 1994 NBA Finals concurrently with the O.J. Simpson Ford Bronco chase. Photo Credit: Gen X Misfits

It seemed like a zillion years ago. A 90-minute slow car speed chase with O.J. Simpson and his friend, Al Cowlings stopped everybody’s flow on a Friday night watching the NBA on NBC’s game 5 of the 1994 NBA Finals between the Houston Rockets and the New York Knicks.

Craziest part of it all?

While the Rockets’ Hakeem Olajuwon led all scorers with 27 points and 8 rebounds in game 5  against the Knicks at Madison Square Garden, his Rockets teammates were keenly aware of the chase. Apparenty, during timeouts, players were watching the Ford Bronco/LAPD chase on television’s sitting on the scorer’s table. “I go in the huddle, I’m like, “O.J.’s on the run,” TNT’s Inside The NBA analyst Kenny ‘The Jet’ Smith told me.

Check out Kenny ‘The Jet’ Smith’s recount of Game 5 of the 1995 NBA Finals with Brandon ‘Scoop B’ Robinson on Scoop B Radio

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Smith was a member of the Rockets and recalls vividly how it all went down.

Head coach Rudy Tomjanovich comes into the huddle and yells: “What are you guys doing?”

“O.J.’s on the run,” Smith yelled back.

“What are you doing? We’re in the middle of the NBA Finals,” retorts Coach Tomjanovich.

According to Smith, Tomjanovich drew up a play and as players were walking back on the court after the timeout, Tomjanovich pulls Smith to the side and asks: “Is he really on the run?” 

“So that’s how we found out about it,” said Smith. “It was like what the hell is on? This guy is running!  Like no one ever did that.”

A Lefrak City, Queens native, it was a shock for Smith to see a an active police chace on the Los Angeles Freeway”It was going on in California, I live there now. I didn’t know about the slow speed chase; they do that all the time. In New York, they’re gonna shoot your car. So I’m like: ‘are they gonna shoot the car down?’ ‘Are they going to shoot the tires out?’“

Simpson would eventually surrender to the LAPD and would be taken into custody.

The Knicks and Rockets dueling it out on the court in the ’94 Finals was way before today’s current social media era, which means you had a better chance of undivided attention then.

But now? Forget about it!

“It definetely was a distraction,” Smith said.

Rightly so. The Knicks ended up edging the Rockets out in game 5 91-84. No worries, the Rockets won the series and were crowned 1994 NBA Finals champs. They’d win another the following year against the Orlando Magic.

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Former O.J. Simpson defense attorney Alan Dershowitz chats with Brandon ‘Scoop B’ Robinson on Scoop B Radio. Photo Provided By: Fox News

There’s a very good chance that former NFL great O.J. Simpson will be a free man by the end of 2017.

Simpson is scheduled for a hearing in front of the Nevada Board of Parole Commissioners in Carson City, Nevada tomorrow, July 20 via video from the Lovelock Correctional Institution. Simpson was convicted  in October 2008 on 12 counts  that included conspiracy, burglary, kidnapping, robbery, assault and coercion, all with a deadly weapon for his role in a October 2007 robbery attempt in a Las Vegas hotel room.

In the robbery, Simpson took hundreds of pieces of memorabilia from two men. Simpson and his accomplices brandished a gun during the incident and the former football star told others in the room that no one could leave. Simpson indicated that he was trying to retrieve items that belonged to him which included family photos.

Fast forward to 2017. If a simple majority of the four commissioners vote in favor of parole, Simpson will be released in early October.

The parole board will give judgment on Simpson based upon his time spent in the Nevada facility and not based upon the murder case in the 90s.

For those tardy to the party or not even born yet, Simpson was charged with the murders of his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman. Simpson was acquitted on the murder charges but lost a $33.5 million judgment in civil court for the deaths of Brown and Goldman.

Alan Dershowitz was a member of Simpson’s defense team that included Robert Shapiro, F.Lee Bailey, Robert Kardashian, Gerald Uelmen, Carl E. Douglas and Johnnie Cochran in the case many dubbed the Trial of The Century. Dershowitz once wittingly said: “The defendant wants to hide the truth because he’s generally guilty. The defense attorney’s job is to make sure the jury does not arrive at that truth.”

Fully and full of quotes, the scriptwriters for the 1996 American film Jerry Maguire could only wish to come up with something so pointed.

But I digress!

Dershowitz has been in the news as of late. Dershowitz recently tried to publish an opinion piece in The New York Times that U.S. President Donald Trump likely did not attempt to obstruct justice by firing former FBI Director James Comey. According to a recent interview with the Washington Examiner, Dershowitz reached out to the New York Times in June to the paper to present an opposing view.

Always opinionated, I chatted with Dershowitz on a recent episode of Scoop B Radio about race.

Dershowitz explains his feelings on representing African Americans in the courtroom over his career particularly during the O.J. Simpson case where race was a previaling theme. Did race hinder or hurt Dershowitz in representing Simpson both professionally or personally?

“Personally not at all,” Alan Dershowitz told me on Scoop B Radio.  “It was a very important case it was a case that told us a lot about the racial situation in America. When I got into the case he was facing the death penalty.”

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Dershowitz added: 

“Over my long career I’ve represented lots and lots of African American people; both defendants and others. I was in the Civil Rights Movement, I was down south in the early 60s. So that, part of it was very easy for me. For me the biggest thrill was having the chief counsel on the case being an African American and having all these white lawyers really working for a really brilliant, terrific, African American lawyer.”

The African American lawyer Dershowitz was referring to was the late Johnnie Cochran.

In his closing arguments in the Simpson trial, Cochran famously stated: “If it doesn’t fit, you must acquit.”

“He really was in charge,” Dershowitz said of Cochran.

“That sent a powerful message to people watching. That also sent a powerful message to the jury. So I had worked with lots and lots of African American lawyers before, but this is a case where some of the world’s prominent white lawyers in the country, F. Lee Bailey, Bob Shapiro, Barry Scheck were all working for our leader who was an African lawyer, he was the leader, Johnnie Cochran.”

Cochran was the only attorney in Los Angeles ever to receive both the “Civil Trial Lawyer of the Year” Award and the “Criminal Trial Lawyer of the Year” Award. In 1995, he was named “America’s Trial Lawyer of the Year” by The National Law Journal, as well as being named one of the “Headliners of the Year” by Time magazine.In 1999, he was named one of the “Top 50 Trial Attorneys of 1999” by the Los Angeles Business Journal.

Dershowitz is currently a Harvard Law professor. He’s penned books like: The Best Defense (1982), Chutzpah (1991), The Advocate’s Devil (1994), Supreme Injustice: How the High Court Hijacked Election 2000 (2001), The Case for Israel (2003) and Taking a Stand: My Life in the Law (2013).

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F.Lee Bailey stopped by Scoop B Radio and discussed O.J. Simpson’s Dream Team. Photo Courtesy of FOX News.

There’s a very good chance that former NFL great O.J. Simpson will be a free man by the end of 2017.

Simpson is scheduled for a hearing in front of the Nevada Board of Parole Commissioners in Carson City, Nevada tomorrow, July 20 via video from the Lovelock Correctional Institution. Simpson was convicted  in October 2008 on 12 counts  that included conspiracy, burglary, kidnapping, robbery, assault and coercion, all with a deadly weapon for his role in a October 2007 robbery attempt in a Las Vegas hotel room.

In the robbery, Simpson took hundreds of pieces of memorabilia from two men. Simpson and his accomplices brandished a gun during the incident and the former football star told others in the room that no one could leave. Simpson indicated that he was trying to retrieve items that belonged to him which included family photos.

Fast forward to 2017. If a simple majority of the four commissioners vote in favor of parole, Simpson will be released in early October.

The parole board will give judgment on Simpson based upon his time spent in the Nevada facility and not based upon the murder case in the 90s.

For those tardy to the party or not even born yet, Simpson was charged with the murders of his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman. Simpson was acquitted on the murder charges but lost a $33.5 million judgment in civil court for the deaths of Brown and Goldman.

Famed defense attorney F. Lee Bailey, represented Simpson during the trial. Bailey along with Robert Shapiro, Alan Dershowitz, Robert Kardashian, Gerald Uelmen, Carl E. Douglas and Johnnie Cochran were dubbed Simpson’s Dream Team.

Bailey disagrees with that notion. “No, because it had some good lawyers, some not so good,” Bailey told me on Scoop B Radio.

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Bailey who also secured a reversal of Dr. Sam Sheppard’s conviction in the murder of his pregnant wife in the 60’s and an acquittal at his second trial and represented Albert DeSalvo, who claimed to be the Boston Strangler weighed in more on his assessment of the Simpson Dream team lawyers.

“Johnnie Cochran tried his best to keep an even keel in the atmosphere of the courtroom we were working in. That wasn’t very easy and he was not always successful. Although Johnnie was a very good lawyer, I enjoyed working with him and became his good friend, but apart from that the dream team was not as well coordinated as it should have been and the work was not apportioned out on a very thoughtful basis in my view.”

According to Bailey the Simpson case was rather long and he just wanted to do his work and go home.”A lot of people were competing for the limelight,” said Bailey.

“I just wanted to get out of there because California trials are an imposition on anybody that gets wrapped up in them. The Patty Hearst case was worth three weeks of trial; indeed that was forecast. It was wrapped up in three months even in a Federal court. The O.J. case might have been three months total, it took over a year. That’s pretty unnerving for someone who has other clients to worry about, other places to be.”

 

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Last week, our nation elected a new president in Donald Trump. It also put to rest a year long media produced fascination that will continue forever and ever amen! With the race over it feels like the end of Christmas where it’s time to put the lights back in the attic and take the tree outside for the garbage truck to pick it up.

Yet, there’s a lot to de-clutter and plethora of pine needles to be vacuumed. Anything with Hillary Rodham-Clinton and Donald J. Trump’s name next to it was must see TV and viral ready for internet users consuming content like a Pacman arcade game.

Wikileaks, tax returns, locker room talk, ‘bad hombres’ and ‘grabbing women by the ‘pu**y’ are lexicons forever aligned into the minds of both young and old.

America’s fascination with the 2016 Presidential election campaign is reminiscent of the O.J. Simpson case. Although two human beings were murdered in a trial that Simpson was acquitted for, issues of race, wealth, conflict, slander, larger than life personalities and a nation divided on who was right and who was wrong were similar themes in the 2016 Presidential Race.

How the heck do we explain this to our kids?

“People don’t know what to do at this point,” New York Knicks forward Carmelo Anthony told ESPN’s Ian Begley and Adry Torres. “So I think it’s up to us as individuals to kind of just take that responsibility and lead, everybody got to lead in their own way. We can’t rely on a system or one person. We got to move on from that.”

The entry point for the O.J. Simpson case began June 17, 1994 on Los Angeles’ 405 freeway. A 90-minute slow car speed chase with Simpson and his friend, Al Cowlings stopped everybody’s flow on a Friday night watching the NBA on NBC’s game 5 of the 1994 NBA Finals between the Houston Rockets and the New York Knicks.

Craziest part of it all?

While the Rockets’ Hakeem Olajuwon led all scorers with 27 points and 8 rebounds in an eventual 91-84 game 5 loss to the Knicks at Madison Square Garden, his Rockets teammates were keenly aware of the chase. Apparenty, during timeouts, players were watching the Ford Bronco/LAPD chase on television’s sitting on the scorer’s table. “I go in the huddle, I’m like, “O.J.’s on the run,” TNT’s Inside The NBA analyst Kenny ‘The Jet’ Smith told me.

Smith was a member of the Rockets at the time and recalls vividly how it all went down.

Head coach Rudy Tomjanovich comes into the huddle and yells: “What are you guys doing?”

“O.J.’s on the run,” Smith yelled.

“What are you doing? We’re in the middle of the NBA Finals,” Tomjanovic yelled back.

According to Smith, Tomjanovic drew up a play and as players were walking back on the court after the timeout, Tomjanovic pulls Smith to the side and asks, “Is he really on the run?”

“Where I’m from, when you run, you did it,” said Smith. “When you first hear it, you’re like, ‘why would he do it?’ It’s O.J. Simpson. In your mind you’re thinking, he’s got so many things to lose.”

Simpson’s defense attorney F. Lee Bailey predicted that his client would be found not guilty, to the chagrin of many. “I forecasted to anyone who would listen,” Bailey told me in an interview this summer. “And many of them snickered at me, but sure enough when the verdict came in they are not the kind of people that would say I was wrong, they said the jury was wrong, they were racist. They were prejudice. It was a sad display of American culture trying to defend its wrongheadedness.”

Fast forward to 2016, these same conversations are still going on, just now in an America that’s allegedly post-racial. “I don’t think there is any room to not face the obvious truth,” Golden State Warriors forward David West said last week. “[Donald Trump] speaks for the majority of the people in this nation. His attitudes about black people, about Muslim people, about women, about just about every sort of political group you could name, folks agree with his positions and you can’t deny that because folks voted for him.”

“This whole fairy tale about some post racial, post, this utopia that Obama supposedly created is all bull,” he added. “That’s the bottom line when you look at what the results say from last night this nation has not moved a thread in terms of its ideals.”

Clinton and Trump can’t undo the mudslinging and cattiness brought to debates and through media sound bites during their campaign. What’s done is done. However, conversation is at least a starting point. Last week, President Barack Obama and President-elect Donald Trump met at the White House as the two held a transfer of political power meeting. Their wives also toured the White House. For years, Trump claimed that Obama was an immigrant, did not have a legal birth certificate and was the founder of ISIS and throughout Obama’s campaigning for Hillary Clinton, Obama expressed Trumps lack of adequacy in running a country.

In WWE fashion, the two turned-heel. President Obama expressed unity. “My number 1 priority in the next two months is to try to facilitate a transition that ensures our President-elect is successful,” Obama said.

Trump called Obama a “very good man” and stated that he would seek President Obama’s counsel in the future.

Where do we go from here?

A good start is comic relief while telling some truths. Dave Chappelle took care of that on SNL on Saturday. USA Today put it best when they said: After the electoral college answered the call to “Make America Great Again,” the country was hard pressed to find anyone willing or able to make America laugh again. Comedian Dave Chappelle hosted SNL to do just that.

The next four years in this country will be interesting. The always thoughtful and poised Ernie Johnson from TNT’s Inside The NBA threaded the needle like Magic Johnson in his prime when he expressed his displeasure with both presidential candidates. Johnson noted that he wrote in his vote for the first time in his voting history and expressed that he was optimistic. “I just hope he’s all in fixing the wounds in this country and the divides that separate this country,” he said.

“And I want to be part of that too. And for me to part of it, I have to look in the mirror and say, ‘How am I going to be a better man? How am I going to be a better neighbor? How am I going to be a better citizen? How am I going to be a better American? How can I be a fountain and not a drain?’”

Brandon Robinson is a sports and entertainment writer and TV personality. Follow him on Twitter @SCOOPB and visit http://ScoopBRadio.com

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AHS: Roanoke is setup like a true crime/paranormal retelling documentary or reality show. It also has similar tones and style to horror movies like The Amityville Horror, The Conjuring and The Blair Witch Project. Sarah Paulson and Cuba Gooding Jr. play the reenactment actors for Shelby and Matt; the couple who experienced this trauma. Shelby (played by Lily Rabe) and Matt (played by Andre Holland) are an interracial couple who moved back from L.A. after Matt was attacked in a gang initiation game called Knockout. Shelby was pregnant at the time and unfortunately due to stress or being shoved by the thugs who attacked Matt, lost her child. In an effort to rebuild their life and start fresh they moved to North Carolina and bought an old farm house.

After purchasing the house things really start to go awry for the couple. During a hailstorm Shelby sees human teeth falling from the sky onto the home. She later encounters to twin female ghosts. In need of relaxing Shelby heads to her hot tub and is held underwater by 3 mysterious figures with torches. She calls the police but nothing is found. The next night Matt encounters a slaughtered pig on the front porch. Not wanting to frighten Shelby he buries the pig in the backyard and installs security monitors, thinking it is the Red Necks who wanted the house trying to scare them out.

Matt is a traveling salesman and must leave Shelby behind to head to Raleigh. He asks his sister Lee (played by Adina Porter, reenactment played by Angela Bassett) to come stay with Shelby until he returns. Lee is a former police officer who was removed from the force because of a prescription pill addiction and subsequently lost her husband and daughter because of it as well. The two women hear someone in the house and retreat to the basement where they believe the noise to be coming from. Unfortunately for them they are locked down there and watch a video of Piggy Man (remember him from season 1? He terrified Eric Stonestreet in Murder House).

Back at his hotel Matt is watching American Crime Story (you see the O.J. Simpson car chase in the background on the TV, a little nod to Cuba as he played O.J. in the show) and gets an alert on his phone from the security cameras. He sees what he deems as a lynch mob with torches approaching his home. He frantically tries to contact Shelby and Lee but to no avail. He immediately rushes home. Eventually Lee and Shelby are able to exit the basement and encounter creepy stick figure humans hanging from the ceiling. There were hundreds of them!

Matt makes it home in record time and just as quickly as he returns Shelby takes off in the car. When she answers Matt’s call, while driving, she hits a person (Kathy Bates). Bates’s character gets up with a meat cleaver in hand, and heads into the woods. Shelby chases after her. Mistake number 1. The lady has a MEAT CLEAVER! What are you thinking?!

Shelby then gets lost in the woods and the world around her goes berserk! The trees and the ground start moving and she once again encounters the human stick dolls. Moments later she is surrounded by the ghost of colonists and one of them has been scalped. She screams in terror.

Connections to other seasons:

Show creators Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk have said all the seasons are connected. It was made more apparent by this anthology promo released in wake of the season 6 premiere:

Back in the very first season of American Horror Story Billie Dean (played by Sarah Paulson) told the story of 117 settlers who disappeared in 1590. In season 3, Coven, Violet (played by Taissa Farminga) tries to use the word “croatoan” to banish Chad (played by Zachary Quinto) to which he replies “I mean, really? The Roanoke spell?” It looks like season 6 will be connecting the mythology of the show and showing us a more unified AHS universe. What other links to Freak Show, Asylum and Hotel are there? Stay tuned to find out!

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Ever since FX released the now hit show, American Crime Story: The People v. O.J. Simpson, we can’t get enough of O.J. and the twisted story of the trial that had everyone on the edge of their seats. The FX series HAS come to an end but that doesn’t mean, we can’t continue to learn more about this story!

ESPN has announced that they will be releasing the 30 for 30 documentary on O.J. Simpson and it is due to drop in June. According to People, the trailer above is the first trailer of the seven-and-half-hour series coming to ESPN. The first opening episode will premiere on June 11th at 9 p.m. EST on ABC and then will air on ESPN starting June 14th in five parts. On top of that, the entire documentary will be screened at the upcoming Tribeca Film Festival in NYC on April 23rd, followed by a Q&A with the director, Ezra Edelman.

According to EW, Edelman stated the following about the documentary:

“This is not a film simply focused on the murders or the trial. It is a much bigger story,” Edelman continues, “one that explores O.J.’s life and how race and his pursuit of celebrity shaped it… while at the same time documenting the racial dynamics of L.A. and the relationship between its police force and black citizens – a relationship thrust front and center into the discussion of the murders, and one that proved a vital determinant in the outcome of the trial.”

Check out the debut trailer above and tell us what you think! Will you be watching O.J.: Made in America?

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