"Black Magic," 8 p.m. CDT, Sunday and Monday, ESPN
Dan Klores stands 5-foot-9, weighs about a buck-seventy and is white.
His emotionally uplifting film, "Black Magic," is a neck-craning 7-feet tall, can jump out of Madison Square Garden and is Earl Lloyd black (but more on Earl later).
No, the Brooklyn-raised director of this captivating documentary - which details the triumphs and utter degradation experienced by the student athletes who played basketball at historically black colleges and universities - does not remotely resemble the protagonists of his heart-wrenching film.
Still, the words uttered by those he featured in this long-overdue project, produced in conjunction with ESPN, speak volumes.
"He literally saved my life," said former Southern University coach Ben Jobe, one of many captivating stories captured by Klores that slam back the glory days of college basketball at schools such as Winston-Salem State, Tennessee State and Morgan State.
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This film is a tremendous Black History lesson and each of us need to make time to watch this documentary. Additional video footage is available by clicking this link: http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/blackhistory2008/index
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