The book, by Washington Post reporter Wesley Lowery, looks at how decades of racial bias against African-Americans tie into the recent accusations of police abuse and rioting in Ferguson and Baltimore and led to the formation of the Black Lives Matter protest movement.
Into the Badlands writer LaToya Morgan will pen the pilot script for the potential series, which will portray the Black Lives Matter movement through an array of fictional characters.
AMC is turning the Black Lives Matter movement into a TV drama.
Lowery’s book, published last November, stems from his on-the-ground reporting in Ferguson and Baltimore for The Washington Post.