Set against the backdrop of the Civil Rights Movement, “One Night in Miami” depicts a meeting of the minds of modern history’s most notable trailblazers, Malcolm X, Muhammad Ali, Jim Brown, and Sam Cooke.
Kemp Powers, who is currently receiving praise for his Pixar film “Soul,” adapted his play for the screen.
“I was a journalist in my former life, and this was just a paragraph in a book that I’d been reading on the intersection between sports and the Civil Rights Movement,” Powers says. “There was one paragraph in the book that mentioned that the night Cassius Clay beat Sonny Liston, February 25, 1964,
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