Memoir by Beyoncé’s father Mathew Knowles to become feature film

The movie will be based on Racism from the Eyes of a Child – the pop mogul’s book about his early life in pre-civil rights Alabama

A memoir by Beyoncé Knowles’ father Mathew Knowles is to become a feature film, detailing his early years as a student activist.

According to a report in Variety, Knowles’ 2017 book Racism from the Eyes of a Child is in active development as a film, with plans for a TV series as well. The book covers Knowles’ childhood in pre-civil rights Alabama, during which he has said he attended “all-white” high schools and universities: “I had been beaten, I’ve been electrically prodded, I’ve been spit on, I’ve been humiliated, all sorts of trauma.” Knowles graduated from Fisk University in Nashville, an HBCU (historically black college or university).