On this month's BCR, Al shamefully has never seen the film based on his Alma Mater The Great Debaters. Listen as he and Mikayla talk about the film, what it was like to attend school in East Texas, and why Al hates fried chicken.
The Great Debaters (2007)
Poet and professor Melvin B. Tolson (Denzel Washington) teaches at the predominately black Wiley College in 1935 Texas. He decides to start a debate team, something nearly unheard of at a black college. While at first he butts heads with the influential father (Forest Whitaker) of one of his best debators, eventually he is able to form a team of strong-minded, intelligent young students, and they become the first black debate team to challenge Harvard's prestigious debate champions.
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