Anika Noni Rose has booked the lead role in the CBS civil rights crime drama drama pilot "For Justice," from Law & Order scribe/showrunner Rene Balcer, to be directed by Ava DuVernay.
Rose joins the previously-cast Phylicia Rashad in a project based on author James Patterson’s very first novel – a Civil Rights era crime drama titled "The Thomas Berryman Number," which follows the investigation and research of a Nashville reporter into the murder of Jimmie Lee Horn, Nashville’s first black mayor. The novel is set in the early 1970s, with a central murder investigation tightly wrapped up in racial tensions. Here’s an official…
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