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The success of MSUвЂ™s 19 back-to-back Big Ten and National Champion teams forces America to re-think prejudices that previously kept African American players from earning scholarships or starting positions.

The racial demographics seen on the field today are due in large part to Hall of Fame coach Duffy DaughertyвЂ™s innovative approach to recruiting African American men from the South to MSU in the 1960s, known as the вЂњUnderground RailroadвЂќ of college football. As she uncovers both the triumphs and defeats of her father's team, she develops a newly formed appreciation for the game and a deeper connection to her father, just in time to witness MSU Spartan Football team ascend to national prominence 50 years later. Maya traces her father's footsteps from the segregated South to the North, over the course of a modern football season. The story unfolds through the eyes of Maya Washington, Gene's youngest daughter, as she uncovers her father's journey and the impact of this legacy on the present generation.

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Her award-winning narrative short film White Space, starring ABC FamilyвЂ™s Switched at Birth series regular Ryan Lane, is now streaming online through KweliTV after a network television appearance through African American Short Films. Her production company, Running Water Entertainment, LLC, is distributing her most recent films: Through the Banks of the Red Cedar, a feature length documentary about her father Vikings Legend Gene Washington and his Michigan State teammates who were on the first fully-integrated college football team in America which debuted on the Big Ten Network in 2020 and will premiere on PBS in 2022, and CLEAR a narrative short film about a mixed-blood indigenous woman and her family reconnecting after a 16-year prison sentence for a crime she didnвЂ™t commit now streaming on Argo and KweliTV. Maya often lends her talents to nonprofits like George Floyd Global Memorial and Emmett Till Legacy Foundation.

Additionally, she directed two episodes of the upcoming History Channel series I was There, coming in 2022 from Committee Films.

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Maya Washington is an award-winning filmmaker (writer/director/producer) and actor.ДЄs a freelance film and television director, Maya recently directed the Heidnik episode of The Killer Next Door, a true crime anthology from Fox in which the architect of criminal profiling for the FBI, John Douglas, decodes the worst serial killers.

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