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A Most Beautiful Thing: The True Story of America's First All-Black High School Rowing Team
The true story of the first all-Black high school crew team that went on to do great things. An inspirational story of Arshay Cooper and students from Manley High School in Chicago's West Side who stumble upon crew, learn to row and become champions. The sport, and the conditioning it requires, bring about physical changes to their bodies, but it's the positive mental and emotional benefits they discover that are the best part.
Now a documentary narrated by Common, produced by Grant Hill, Dwyane Wade, and 9th Wonder, from filmmaker Mary Mazzio
The moving true story of a group of young men growing up on Chicago's West side who form the first all-Black high school rowing team in the nation, and in doing so not only transform a sport, but their lives.
Growing up on Chicago’s Westside in the 90’s, Arshay Cooper knows the harder side of life. The street corners are full of gangs, the hallways of his a...
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