- The documentary by multi-award winning Huffington Post and Billboard magazine reporter summarizes and depicts my aspiration as the Grandson of Harlem Renaissance Producer/Director Leonard Harper extraordinaire to revitalize, share and get his historical legacy out. The motion picture concludes by revealing long-forgotten archive photographs and film footage from his numerous uptown and Broadway stage shows along with his co-directorial work with Oscar Micheaux of the first Black 'talkie" sound feature The Exile. The coda is when the audience is indulged with the unveiling ceremony of LEONARD HARPER WAY by the City of New York.—Grant Harper Reid
- The story-line familiarizes the audience me as Leonard Harper's Grandson and the author of the Grand Prize Award 5-Star winning biography titled Rhythm For Sale. Rhythm For Sale particularizes and enlightens readers about Producer Leonard Harper's life and incredible stage machinery before, during and after the tremendous cultural explosion called the Harlem Renaissance Jazz Age. The documentary concludes by exploring how I Harper's grandson Grant Harper Reid acquired the support of the entire Harlem community, the City of New York, Mayor De Blasio, and Abyssinia Baptist Church's Rev. Calvin O. Butts to co-name 132nd Street and Adam Clayton Powell Blvd. into Leonard Harper Way.—Grant Harper Reid
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