The Defender

Name: The Defender
Cast: Sterling K. Brown

This title is still in development (rumored) — cast, artwork, and dates will fill in as its release nears.

Scipio Africanus Jones was a courageous attorney who risked his life and career to defend 87 men wrongfully accused of murder in the wake of the Elaine, AR massacre of 1919, when a group of Black sharecroppers meeting in a church about unionization were attacked by a posse organized by white landowners.

Cast

Sterling K. Brown
Scipio Africanus Jones

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