{"id":2210370,"date":"2024-04-01T06:26:48","date_gmt":"2024-04-01T10:26:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/barack-obama-is-producing-a-claudine-gay-drama-series-for-netflix-starring-lupita-nyongo\/"},"modified":"2024-04-01T06:27:35","modified_gmt":"2024-04-01T10:27:35","slug":"barack-obama-is-producing-a-claudine-gay-drama-series-for-netflix-starring-lupita-nyongo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/barack-obama-is-producing-a-claudine-gay-drama-series-for-netflix-starring-lupita-nyongo\/","title":{"rendered":"Barack Obama teams up with Netflix to produce a drama series featuring Lupita Nyong&#8217;o, led by Claudine Gay"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">36<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbarack-obama-is-producing-a-claudine-gay-drama-series-for-netflix-starring-lupita-nyongo%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2210370&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Barack\u200b Obama is producing a Netflix drama series about the life of Claudine Gay, the \u2064former Harvard University president. The series, titled &#8220;American Shahid,&#8221; is set to premiere in early\u200d 2025 and stars Lupita Nyong&#8217;o alongside Barry Keoghan,\u2063 portraying a racist journalist aiming to tarnish \u2062Gay&#8217;s legacy. The production\u200d is \u2064part of Higher \u2062Ground, the Obamas&#8217; partnership with Netflix. Barack Obama is helming a\u2064 Netflix series, &#8220;American Shahid,&#8221; delving\u200d into Claudine Gay&#8217;s story \u2064as a former Harvard president. Starring Lupita Nyong&#8217;o and\u200c Barry Keoghan, the show follows a racist\u2062 journalist&#8217;s bid to \u200csmear Gay&#8217;s reputation. This project \u200cfalls under Higher Ground, the Obamas&#8217; collaboration with Netflix, scheduled for \u2063an early 2025 release.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<section id=\"article\">\n<article data-post-title=\"Barack Obama Is Producing a Claudine Gay Drama Series for Netflix Starring Lupita Nyong'o\" data-post-slug=\"http:\/\/kamala-harris-and-the-art-of-failing-up\" data-post-url id=\"print-1873113\">\n<div>\n<h2>Barry Keoghan will play the racist right-wing journalist obsessed with taking down Harvard&#8217;s first black woman president<\/h2>\n<figure> \t\t\t\t\t<\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Barack Obama is producing a new drama series for Netflix about the life of Claudine Gay, the former Harvard University president who <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/campus\/harvard-president-claudine-gay-resigns-in-disgrace-amid-plagiarism-anti-semitism-scandals\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">resigned<\/a> in disgrace earlier this year amid accusations of plagiarism.<\/p>\n<p>The new series, tentatively titled <i>American Shahid<\/i>, will debut on the streaming platform in early 2025. Academy Award-winning actress Lupita Nyong&#8217;o has signed on to play the leading role, while Barry Keoghan will play the right-wing journalist behind the coordinated racist plot to destroy Gay&#8217;s career and reputation as a prominent woman of color in charge of a storied institution.<\/p>\n<p>Higher Ground, the production company Barack and Michelle Obama launched in 2018 by signing a partnership deal with Netflix worth an estimated $50 million, is eager to add to its award collection after producing the Oscar-winning documentary <i>American Factory<\/i> in 2020.<\/p>\n<p>The announcement comes after Obama reportedly lobbied Harvard officials to support Gay in the face of mounting calls for her resignation. Gay initially came under fire in early December following her disastrous testimony on Capitol Hill during which she <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/latest-news\/watch-mit-penn-harvard-presidents-say-calls-for-jewish-genocide-do-not-violate-code-of-conduct\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">struggled<\/a>, as any university president would, to answer questions about whether calls for Jewish genocide would be considered appropriate on campus.<\/p>\n<p>Subsequent complaints filed with the university alleged that Gay, the first black woman president of Harvard, committed numerous instances of plagiarism throughout her scholarly work in the field of African-American Studies, a routine practice weaponized by right-wing critics leading a campaign against powerful black voices.<\/p>\n<p>To wit, the Harvard Corporation conducted an &#8220;independent review&#8221; of Gay&#8217;s published research and found &#8220;no violation of Harvard&#8217;s standards.&#8221; Critics questioned the thoroughness of Harvard&#8217;s review, especially when additional allegations of plagiarism surfaced, but lawyers for Gay argued that even printing the allegations in a major newspaper was defamatory.\t<\/p>\n<p>After resigning in January, Gay penned a defiant op-ed in the <i>New York Times <\/i>denouncing her critics as cynical &#8220;opportunists&#8221; eager to bring down a powerful black woman. &#8220;I make an ideal canvas for projecting every anxiety about the generational and demographic changes unfolding on American campuses: a Black woman selected to lead a storied institution,&#8221; she wrote. &#8220;Someone who views diversity as a source of institutional strength and dynamism.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><i>Editor&#8217;s Note: Today is April 1, 2024. <\/i><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/section>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Barack Obama is producing a Netflix drama series depicting the controversial life of Claudine Gay, Harvard&#8217;s first black woman president embroiled in plagiarism allegations. Barry Keoghan stars as a right-wing journalist targeting her. The upcoming series, named &#8220;American Strife,&#8221; promises intense storytelling and gripping portrayals of power and downfall in academia<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":164,"featured_media":2210371,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/gay-obama-netflix.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[544],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2210370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-free-beacon"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/gay-obama-netflix.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2210370","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/164"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2210370"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2210370\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2210371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2210370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2210370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2210370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}