A BINDING TRUTH

They were high school classmates in 1965, one Black, one white, who shared a last name but little else. Jimmie transferred his senior year to an affluent high school in Charlotte - he was their first Black football star. That decision swept him into one of North Carolina's most volatile civil rights cases, played out at the explosive intersection of football and race. De watched that case unfold and wrote about it in his college essay application. He said it got him into Harvard. But not until 50 years later would a shocking phone call between the two reveal secrets found buried in church records from the 1860s that would change their lives. Their story, rooted in the South, is also America’s story – one of slavery’s legacy and our current racial divide. It’s a story of healing and shows a way forward as Jimmie and De explore their binding truth.