The CW has picked up both seasons of the Courtney B. Vance and Aunjanue Ellis-led drama 61stStreet.
The dramatic thriller was originally ordered as a two-season pickup with both seasons being shot simultaneously. But only its freshman installment aired in its entirety on AMC last spring. With the CW pickup, season 1 will air this fall followed by season 2 making its debut in 2024.
The hard-hitting drama tells the story of Moses Johnson , a promising Black high school athlete who is swept up into the infamously corrupt Chicago criminal justice system. Taken by the police as a supposed gang member, he finds himself in the eye of the storm as cops and prosecutors seek revenge for the death of an officer during a drug bust gone wrong.
"As an honest man, you get to see how broken the system is for beige, brown and Black [folks]. It just doesn't work. We have to have those talks with our children about encounters with the police, you know? And people will see in this series, eventually, I cross-examine the lieutenant on this show and I ask him, 'Have you had that talk with your children? Your sons?' And he said, no. I asked, why not? He said, 'It's not necessary,'" Vance recalled.
"There it is, right there. That we have to, in 2022, still have to have the talk," the actor added."'Cause, the issues are still the same as they were when I was growing up, when my father was growing up [and] my grandfather was growing up. The police can do what they want and there's no excuse." The actor shared that although he believes there are"great policemen and women" who do their job, he feels that nothing can be changed until"a trust can be built."
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