Jay Z Teams with The Weinstein Company for Kalief Browder Docuseries
Image via MTV/YouTubeJay Z is bringing his voice to television. Just one week after inking a deal with The Weinstein Company that gives them an exclusive first look at all of his projects, Jay Z has announced the first project that will fall under that banner.
The project will be a docuseries titled Time: The Kalief Browder Story. Browder was a high school student from the Bronx who killed himself in 2015 after spending three years in Rikers Island for the alleged theft of a backpack.
Browder was arrested in 2010 at just 16 years old for second-degree robbery, and was imprisoned—without a conviction—for three years. Browder spent two of those years in solitary confinement, and maintained his innocence the entire time. President Obama wrote an op-ed in The Washington Post urging against the overuse of solitary confinement, and used Browder as an example. Browder hung himself six months after the piece ran.
Time: The Kalief Browder Story is set to air in six parts in January on SpikeTV. The docuseries will use archival footage alongside interviews and dramatic reenactments of Browder’s life.