A new HULU series from Andscape called Algiers, America: The Relentless Pursuit – chronicles Coach Brice Brown and the Edna Karr High Cougars football team’s journey to achieve greatness began streaming Wednesday. Special Teams Coordinator Norman Randall says viewers will get an inside look at their highly successful football program, but also the struggles that happen away from the football field.
“It’s more about Coach Brice and the kids navigating some of the trials and tribulations that they’re going through trying to juggle high school, playing on one of the best teams in the country, and at the same time dealing with things that New Orleans have you deal with like violence, and drug abuse.”
Edna Karr – a predominantly Black high school in Algiers – football team is one of the nation’s best-producing top athletes and won four consecutive state championships from 2016 to 2019. Randall says the series will show triumphs and tragedies and how the kids manage life.
“In those three years, you had not only COVID – our gun violence rose in numbers, and then in 2021 they dealt with Hurricane Ida and we had to be displaced. It’s been a lot. I think the kids have done a great job of showing people behind the scenes.”
Randall believes Director Jackson Fager and Executive Producer Raina Kelley were able to guide the documentary in a way that will inspire and display real-life depictions of a community fighting to save the youth.
“I think the series is going to be real. There’s going to be people crying when they watch it. There’s also going to be people smiling. You have people like Aaron Anderson and Tygee Hill whose now at LSU flourishing.”
The five-part series won the 2022 New Orleans Film Festival’s Audience Award.
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