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'Best of Enemies': Taraji P. Henson and Sam Rockwell's civil rights drama set to release next April

Based on a true story, the movie portrays the unlikely friendship between an outspoken civil rights activist, played by Henson, and a local Klu Klux Klan leader, played by Rockwell

Civil rights drama 'The Best of Enemies,' starring Academy Award nominee Taraji P Henson ('Hidden Figures') and Academy Award winner Sam Rockwell ('Three Billboards Outside Ebbing', 'Missouri'), has been slated to release on April 5 next year. 

Based on a true story, 'The Best of Enemies,' centers on the unlikely relationship between Ann Atwater (Henson), an outspoken civil rights activist, and CP Ellis (Rockwell), a local Ku Klux Klan leader who reluctantly co-chaired a community summit, battling over the desegregation of schools in Durham, North Carolina during the racially-charged summer of 1971.

This unlikely friendship was originally documented in author Osha Gray Davidson’s book, 'The Best of Enemies: Race and Redemption in the New South,' published by the University of North Carolina Press in 2007.

The incredible events that unfolded would change Durham and the lives of Atwater and Ellis forever.