Follows the history of sports marketing executive Sonny Vaccaro, and how he led Nike in its pursuit of the greatest athlete in the history of basketball, Michael Jordan. In 1984, Oregon-based Nike, Inc. is on the verge of shutting their basketball shoe division due to low sales. Sonny Vaccaro, a high school basketball talent scout, is tasked with finding a new spokesperson for Nike basketball shoes. Despite facing challenges and competition from other brands, Sonny is determined to sign Michael Jordan, who would go on to become a generational talent and the face of the Air Jordan brand. With strategic planning and convincing, Sonny succeeds in securing Jordan's endorsement, leading to the immense success and popularity of the Air Jordan line.
The real dream of the American pastor Martin Luther King was never limited to civil rights. He hoped for a just America, where poverty would no longer have a place. Social equality was for him the only guarantee of a true emancipation. During the last four years of his life, he mobilized all his energy to realize this "other dream". But there were many obstacles: he was scorned by white, racist America, abandoned by the political class, but also by some of his own people, who decided to turn their backs on the principle of non-violence.
Dolores Huerta bucks 1950s gender conventions by starting the country's first farm worker's union with fellow organizer Cesar Chavez. What starts out as a struggle for racial and labor justice, soon becomes a fight for gender equality within the same union she is eventually forced to leave. As she wrestles with raising 11 children, three marriages, and is nearly beaten to death by a San Francisco tactical police squad, Dolores emerges with a vision that connects her new found feminism with racial and class justice.
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