Thirty-five years before Barack Obama’s election as President, the question of race and the possibility of bridging racial and ethnic barriers was put to a test in an overlooked and untold story in American politics: \u00a0The 1973 election of Tom Bradley, the first African American Mayor of a major city with an ovewhelmingly white majority.<\/p>\n
Tom Bradley was an extraordinary politician who redefined and reconfigured Los Angeles. He was Mayor for an unprecedented twenty years, City Councilman for ten years and served as a police officer for twenty-one years. He opened City Hall and commission positions to women and minorities, created the first ever profitable Olympics, brought an historically abusive police department under civilian control, and transformed Los Angeles into one of the most diversified and important cities in the world.<\/p>\n
Tom Bradley laid the groundwork for inter-racial coalitions unsurpassed until the election of President Barack Obama. \u00a0We believe that the story of Tom Bradley’s life, incredible achievements and legacy should not be forgotten.<\/p>\n
Academy Award nominated filmmaker Lyn Goldfarb<\/a> and Emmy Award winner Alison Sotomayor<\/a><\/p>\n BRIDGING THE DIVIDE: TOM BRADLEY AND THE POLITICS OF RACE<\/strong> will be the first documentary ever produced on the life and legacy of this extraordinary man. It is an incredible omission that Tom Bradley has been overlooked as one of the most significant and influential black leaders in the history of our nation.<\/p>\n A full telling of Tom Bradley\u2019s story could not be timelier, or more urgent, and we are running out of time. Many of the staff and colleagues who worked with Bradley are in their late seventies, eighties and nineties. Since we began this project, Ethel Bradley, Tom Bradley\u2019s widow, and Bill Elkins, lifelong friend and advisor, died. Max Palevsky, a major campaign supporter, former LA Police Chief Daryl Gates, and three important advisors to Tom Bradley, also passed away.<\/p>\n If we want to tell a story with all of the nuance and details from the people who were there, we need to begin immediately while their memories are still strong. If we do not begin now, chances are that critical parts of Tom Bradley\u2019s story will be lost to history forever.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Exodus Entertainment Bancorp in development talks with Producers to fund and support the making of the “True Life” Documentary of the Mayor Tom Bradley. The goal is to ignite and renew a genuine interest in Tom Bradley \u2013 his life and legacy \u2013 and provide an opportunity for people throughout the city, state and nation to remember and celebrate the man who symbolized hope and a new chapter in race relations. The film will tell the real story of Tom Bradley and restore him to his rightful place as one of the most seminal African American leaders of the 20th century. By Administrator<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevindkinsey.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevindkinsey.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevindkinsey.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevindkinsey.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevindkinsey.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=361"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/kevindkinsey.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":373,"href":"https:\/\/kevindkinsey.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361\/revisions\/373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevindkinsey.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevindkinsey.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevindkinsey.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}WHY IS THIS FILM
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