'Black Magic' Chronicles Civil Rights Movement in NBA

Black Magic, the highly aclaimed production from ESPN and award-winning filmmaker Dan Klores comes to DVD, tomorrow, Tuesday, October 28th. We're talking with one of the writers and producers that worked on the project.

Directed and produced by Klores, and co-produced by basketball legend and Winston-Salem State University graduate Earl “The Pearl” Monroe, Black Magic tells the story of the injustice which characterized the Civil Rights Movement in America, as told through the lives of basketball players and coaches who attended historically Black colleges and universities.

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Originally televised on ESPN as a commercial free, two-part, four-hour film in primetime on Sunday and Monday, March 16 and 17, the show features rare footage of basketball legends Earl “The Pearl” Monroe, Willis Reed, Earl Lloyd, John Chaney, Bob Love, Ben Jobe, Perry Wallace and many more. The film was ESPN's most highly rated documentary ever.

Narrated by Academy Award Nominated actor Samuel L. Jackson, jazz great Wynton Marsalis, and New Orleans Hornets All-Star point guard Chris Paul, the DVD will include exclusive bonus content from the film’s Apollo Theater Red Carpet event, as well as a Q&A session at Morehouse College, ESPN vignettes narrated by Tavis Smiley and Jesse Jackson, and 17 extended interviews with past and present NBA legends.

For more information, visit www.espn.com.