In 2007, Rockets star Tracy McGrady traveled to Darfur refugee camps in Chad in order to educate himself about the crisis and film a documentary. Since then, he has also presented a plan to build schools to facilitate the education of the refugees. He has been been a constant advocate for aid to Darfur, and has inspired other NBA stars to speak out as well. McGrady even changed his jersey number from No. 1 to No. 3 to promote the cause.The hour-long documentary, Three Points, has now been released on Hulu. Hulu's Rebecca Harper also has an interview with McGrady, where he reveals that seeing a public service announcement on Darfur featuring Sudanese Bulls forward Luol Deng provided the final impetus to take up this project.
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9-04-2009 @ 5:35PM
Scott Mathews said...
It's a solid documentary. It gets across that there is still quite a bit of help required and that it takes political pressure to put the resources into stopping this conflict that, if occurring in different parts of the world, would have led to more intense intervention. Good for McGrady.
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