(Descargar) (Liburuak) A Most Beautiful Thing: The True Story
of America's First All-Black High School Rowing Team
By Arshay Cooper
Now a documentary narrated by Common, produced by Grant Hill, Dwyane
Wade, and 9th Wonder, from filmmaker Mary Mazzio The moving true story of
a group of young men growing up on Chicago's West side who form the first all-
black high school rowing team in the nation, and in doing so not only transform
a sport, but their lives.Growing up on Chicago?s Westside in the 90?s, Arshay
Cooper knows the harder side of life. The street corners are full of gangs, the
hallways of his apartment complex are haunted by junkies he calls ?zombies?
with strung out arms, clutching at him as he passes by. His mother is a
recovering addict, and his three siblings all sleep in a one room apartment, a
small infantry against the war zone on the street below.Arshay keeps to himself,
preferring to write poetry about the girl he has a crush on, and spends his school
days in the home-ec kitchen dreaming of becoming a chef. And then one day as
he?s walking out of school he notices a boat in the school lunchroom,
