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Gerald Early
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Gerald Lyn Early is an American essayist and American culture critic, appearing and serving as a consultant on Ken Burns' documentary films Baseball, Jazz, Unforgivable Blackness:…
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Gerald Lyn Early is an American essayist and American culture critic, appearing and serving as a consultant on Ken Burns' documentary films Baseball, Jazz, Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson, The War, and Muhammad Ali. Currently, Early is the Merle Kling Professor of Modern letters, of English, African studies, African-American studies, American culture studies, and Director, Center for Joint Projects in the Humanities and Social Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri. He is a regular commentator on National Public Radio's Fresh Air, and his essays have appeared in numerous editions of Best American Essays series. He writes on topics as diverse as American literature, the Korean War, African-American culture, Afro-American autobiography, non-fiction prose, baseball, jazz, prizefighting, Motown, Miles Davis, Muhammad Ali and Sammy Davis Jr.
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2021
Dean Martin: King of Cool
Movie Self
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2019
Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool
Movie Self - Writer
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2016
Jackie Robinson
TV show Self
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2010
Baseball: The Tenth Inning
TV show Self
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2008
Joe Louis: America's Hero Betrayed
Movie Self
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2005
Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson
TV show Self - writer
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2001
Beyond Tara: The Extraordinary Life of Hattie McDaniel
Movie Self - Cultural Historian
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1996
The Journey of the African-American Athlete
Movie Self - Writer / Historian
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1994
Baseball
TV show Self
