Participant Media, Tribeca Productions and Harpo Productions are backing the project; with DuVernay, Oprah Winfrey, Jeff Skoll, Jonathan King, Jane Rosenthal and Berry Welsh serving as executive producers Winfrey and DuVernay had previously collaborated on the Oscar-winning film Selma and the OWN series Queen Sugar.
For DuVernay, returning to Netflix seemed like the right decision to tell the[...]
