Black Star

Twelve-year old Charley is set on becoming the first female pitcher to play professional baseball, even if that’s a lofty dream for a Black girl in the American South in the 1920s. Her grandfather Kofi’s thrilling stories about courageous ancestors and epic journeys make it impossible not to dream big and she knows he has so much more to tell, like why she can never play on the brand-new baseball field on the other side of town.
When Charley challenges a neighbourhood bully to a game at the church picnic, she knows she can win, even with her ragtag team. Then a dispute on the field leads to Charley making a fateful decision, one that will bring consequences she never could have imagined.