"After The Uprising: The Death Of Danyé Dion Jones" Lands NAACP Image Award Nomination

LOS ANGELES, Jan. 27, 2022 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- The critically acclaimed podcast "AFTER THE UPRISING: The Death of Danyé Dion Jones", created by John Duffy and Ray Nowosielski of podcast start-up Double Asterisk in collaboration with social media video giant NowThis, has landed a nomination for the 53rd NAACP Image Awards. The twisty-turny 11-episode true crime story investigates the death of Danyé Jones, one among a number of mysterious tragedies in recent years for St. Louis activists who helped launch the Black Lives Matter movement. Released by iHeart Media over the Summer of 2021, Season One ended up in the top 1% of listenership.

When 24-year-old Danyé Jones was found hanging from a tree in St. Louis County in 2018, police declared it a suicide. But his mother Melissa McKinnies, a well-known leader among Ferguson frontline activists for police reform, grabbed headlines with her viral post alleging her son had in fact died by lynching. Who was right? Starting only six weeks after Danyé died, journalists Duffy and Nowosielski spent two and a half years working with his mother, family members, close friends, and many in the activist community to follow the trail and find out what exactly happened to him. "After the Uprising" is the result, an unforgettable 11-episode investigative podcast series that documents every shocking twist and turn on their hunt for the truth. The take-away: almost eight years after the Black Lives Matter movement was launched from this place, something is still terribly wrong in North County.

"We are so grateful to the NAACP for this nomination," says Nowosielski, co-owner of Double Asterisk as well as its documentary film arm True Stories. "It's not only the honor of our careers, but we believe it will help create a public push for authorities to take the logical next steps in Danyé's case. What we have documented unfolding in front of us is a story of a police department and medical examiner's office that did not do a true investigation into this family's serious allegations, mounting evidence that the lead detective held a strong racial prejudice, and perhaps worse, and shocking new leads about Danyé's death that could still be investigated by authorities with subpoena power."

Public voting for the 53rd NAACP Image Awards ends on February 5. https://vote.naacpimageawards.net/ Winners will be revealed during the annual ceremony, hosted by seven-time Image Award winner Anthony Anderson, on February 26. The two-hour live TV special begins at 8:00 p.m. ET/PT on BET. It will proceed without an in-person audience due to the ever-changing developments with COVID-19.

After the Uprising is directed, produced, investigated, written, and reported by John Duffy and Ray Nowosielski. Edited by Duffy and Produced by Dave Cassidy. Sound engineering, design, and mix by Josh Condon. Executive Produced by Matt McDonough and Tina Exarhos for NowThis, Brett Kushner for Group Nine Media, and Jess Borovay was Executive in Charge of Production. After the Uprising is a production of Double Asterisk, iHeart Media and NowThis, in association with True Stories. If you have useful information about the death of Danye Jones or anything we've covered, please leave a message on the tip line at 347-674-7401.

ABOUT DOUBLE ASTERISK**
Double Asterisk** is the investigative media company of Ray Nowosielski and John Duffy.

Ray Nowosielski is an Emmy-nominated non-fiction filmmaker, journalist, and writer. His documentary collaborations with Oscars-winning director Barbara Kopple and producer Dave Cassidy include the NAACP Image Award-nominated Miss Sharon Jones, a Netflix original about Johnny Cash and Richard Nixon, Tricky Dick & the Man in Black, the poignant true crime self-help mashup A Murder in Mansfield with Investigation Discovery, and their acclaimed look into a U.S. special ops hostage rescue mission, Desert One. Kopple, Cassidy and Nowosielski are currently completing their film that has captured the Trump years from the vantage of Black and Latino civil rights leaders Marc Morial and Janet Murguia. Nowosielski produced and directed on the Emmy-nominated VICE on HBO Season 3 and was a consulting producer for the pilot of the Amazon original series The New Yorker Presents. Ray is a proud Chicagoland native later transplanted to Indianapolis, and eventually on to Los Angeles, Austin Texas and New York City. He lives with his wife and son in Bloomington IN.

John Duffy is a writer and activist. He wrote and produced the critically-acclaimed documentary Press for Truth, telling the story of a group of September 11 widows from New Jersey and their political awakening after the attacks. His 2011 Who Is Rich Blee? was among the first podcasts to explore the true crime investigative genre, three years before Serial, exposing an alleged human rights abuser inside the CIA and resulting in a well-publicized threat of prosecution from that agency. The Intercept co-founder Glenn Greenwald later dubbed that work "fantastic" and "brave." John has worked extensively in the environmental movement to fight tar sand extraction, fracking, and logging on public lands. His anonymous essays critiquing the contradictions of big systems and their fallout on ecology and society appear regularly in a variety of media. Skyhorse Publishing released his first non-fiction book in 2018, The Watchdogs Didn't Bark. He is currently working with NowThis and True Stories to investigate a high-profile Missing and Murder Indigenous Women case for a new documentary.
https://www.doubleasteriskmedia.com/

ABOUT iHEARTMEDIA
iHeartMedia is a leading global media and entertainment company specializing in radio, digital, mobile, social, live events and on-demand entertainment. It is the #1 podcast publisher globally, with its show distributed on all major podcast apps, including the iHeartRadio app.
https://www.iheart.com/podcast/1119-after-the-uprising-the-de-83445801/

ABOUT NOWTHIS
NowThis creates news content for the social, mobile generation by informing its audience about what's happening and important in the world right now. NowThis is the #1 video news brand on social.
https://nowthisnews.com/

ABOUT TRUE STORIES
True Stories is a non-fiction media collaborative and the documentary film arm of Double Asterisk.
https://www.truestories.us/

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