{"650470":{"#nid":"650470","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Georgia Tech Prof\u2019s Book Basis of Netflix\u2019s \u2018Blood Brothers: Malcolm X \u0026 Muhammad Ali\u2019 out Sept. 9","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EJohnny Smith,\u0026nbsp;the Julius C. \u0026quot;Bud\u0026quot; Shaw Professor of Sports History\u0026nbsp;and Associate Professor of History in the School of History and Sociology, was quoted in \u0026quot;Georgia Tech Prof\u0026rsquo;s Book Basis of Netflix\u0026rsquo;s \u0026lsquo;Blood Brothers: Malcolm X \u0026amp; Muhammad Ali\u0026rsquo; out Sept. 9,\u0026quot; published in\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003EThe Atlanta Journal-Constitution\u003C\/em\u003E on Sept. 3, 2021.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAn excerpt:\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cblockquote\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe documentary by\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.marcus-clarke.com\/bio\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EMarcus A. Clarke\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;relies heavily on a 2016 book,\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Blood-Brothers-Friendship-Between-Muhammad\/dp\/0465093221\/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8\u0026amp;qid=1630502164\u0026amp;sr=8-1\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Ealso called \u0026ldquo;Blood Brothers\u003C\/a\u003E,\u0026rdquo; co-authored by Georgia Tech associate history professor\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/iac.gatech.edu\/people\/person\/johnny-smith\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EJohnny Smith\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;and his former academic advisor\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/cla.purdue.edu\/directory\/profiles\/randy-w.-roberts.html\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003E\u0026nbsp;Purdue University history professor Randy Roberts\u003C\/a\u003E. Both were consultants on the film and Smith was happy with the final result.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Being able to participate and tell the story though a different medium was fascinating and fun,\u0026rdquo; said Smith in an interview with The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"34600","created_gmt":"2021-09-03 17:10:54","changed_gmt":"2021-09-03 17:13:33","author":"mpearson34","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"Pengcheng Zhang","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/www.ajc.com\/life\/radiotvtalk-blog\/georgia-tech-profs-book-basis-of-netflixs-blood-brothers-malcolm-x-muhammad-ali-out-sept-9\/MLV7RUUHOBA7DFGITH7FFHWKYI\/?utm_campaign=snd-autopilot","dateline":{"date":"2021-09-03T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2021-09-03T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"602698":{"id":"602698","type":"image","title":"Johnny Smith ","body":null,"created":"1519232152","gmt_created":"2018-02-21 16:55:52","changed":"1519232152","gmt_changed":"2018-02-21 16:55:52","alt":"","file":{"fid":"229721","name":"JohnSmithWeb.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/JohnSmithWeb.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/JohnSmithWeb.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":97065,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/JohnSmithWeb.jpg?itok=24gDf0Et"}}},"media_ids":["602698"],"groups":[{"id":"1281","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}