Similar Topic: Laurence Fishburne's Company And HBO Max Seeks To Adapt Colson Whitehead’s Novel ‘Sag Harbor’
According to Deadline.com, the article is based on the true story of Sarah Rector, an 11-year-old Black girl in Jim Crow America, who is given reparations in the form of uninhabitable land by the U.S. government. After oil reservoirs are discovered beneath her land, Sarah almost immediately becomes one of the wealthiest people in America. But the government intervenes, once again, to insist that white conservators manage her finances for her. Remarkably, even with the deck stacked against her, teenage Sarah learns to outwit the system and take back what she's owed.
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