Composer Osei Essed on Will Smith-hosted series ‘Amend: The Fight For America’

Composer Osei Essed talks about scoring for Netflix limited series ‘Amend: The Fight For America’, that also features Randall Park, Mahershala Ali and Yara Shahidi

As Amend: The Fight For America arrived on Netflix less than a month after US President Joe Biden’s swearing-in, composer Osei Essed feels the timing was just right given the changing socio-political atmosphere. The six-part limited series, hosted by Will Smith, follows the history of how the 14th Amendment — a part of the American Constitution still not fully understood by the majority — catalysed freedom fights, from Frederick Douglass and Martin Luther King Jr to Gloria Steinem, Ruth Bader Ginsberg and President Barack Obama. Amend also brims with archival footage, photographs, rendered animations and emotive narrations from academics such as historian Christopher Bonner, University of Maryland, and Prof Joanna Grossman, SMU Dedman School of Law.