The Undefeated remembers unforgettable, unafraid and unbowed, famous and overlooked figures from black history: from Jesse Owens, whose Olympic victories helped shatter the myth of white supremacy in the 1930s and first billionaire in NBA history Michael Jordan, to Addie Mae Collins, Cynthia Wesley, Carole Robertson and Carole Denise McNair, killed in a racially motivated bombing in 1963 – and to the hundreds of thousands of black soldiers that fought in the American Civil War.
Watch Kwame Alexander read aloud from The Undefeated
Author Kwame Alexander reads aloud from his illustrated poem The Undefeated – written to commemorate the birth of Alexander’s daughter and the inauguration of Barack Obama in 2008.
This is for the unforgettable. The swift and sweet ones who hurdled history and opened a world of possible.