Being black and playing football during the Civil Rights movement…Gene Washington faced unique obstacles.

Based on the award-winning documentary – THROUGH THE BANKS OF THE RED CEDAR - coming to PBS in February 2022, Maya Washington’s memoir is warm & deeply moving…chronicling a daughter’s love for her father and her appreciation for how he and others changed the game of football forever…showing how racial issues impacted the sport during the 20th century.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR MAYA WASHINGTON is an award-winning narrative and documentary filmmaker (writer/director/producer), actress, writer, poet, creative director, photographer, and arts educator. She is dedicated to social-impact stories that illuminate aspects of the human experience that are untold or rarely seen or that might benefit from new approaches to issues of diversity and inclusion. For more information visit www.throughthebanksoftheredcedar.com