Press kit · Victory by Valor
The men and women who fought on the battlefields and won on the playing fields — Victory By Valor.
Logline
The men and women who fought on the battlefields and won on the playing fields — Victory By Valor.
The series
A Television Documentary Vignette Series, Inspired by HOMAGE. Victory by Valor hosts a select group of American pop-culture sports heroes who also wore the uniform of the United States: Jackie Robinson, Joe Louis, Sugar Ray Robinson, Willie Mays, Arthur Ashe and David Robinson. It shows them in athletic pose and in service, on a timeline from American independence in 1776 to the present day — the fight for the right to fight, the Double Victory campaign, and the campaign phrase that runs through all of it: freedom isn’t free.
The H.E.R.O. Project — Higher Education Resiliency Operation — takes the series into schools through student assembly screenings, Did-You-Know vignettes, JROTC programming, a panel on what makes a hero, a curriculum for educators and a speaker’s bureau.
Source · Kevin Clark’s series brief · Dakar Foundation proposal, November 2024
The trailer · 4:46
Victory by Valor — Trailer
Downloads
- One-sheet (PDF)
Logline, series, the seven heroes, founder bio, contact.
- Victory by Valor badge (4K PNG, transparent)
- H.E.R.O.® Project logo (4K PNG, transparent)
Also the Dakar Foundation logo.
- Key art poster (JPG)
© 2010 Dakar Interactive. All rights reserved.
- Trailer still (JPG, 1280×720)
Joe Louis in uniform, from the trailer.
- Strategic-partnership proposal (PDF)
November 2024.
Informational links. No affiliation with or endorsement by any armed service or league is claimed.
The badge · original copper, 4K · with the service-and-sport baseline band
Key art · © 2010 Dakar Interactive
The heroes · for captions
- 2nd Lt. Jackie RobinsonU.S. Army · 761st Tank Battalion · b. 31 Jan 1919
- Sgt. Joe LouisU.S. Army · Special Services · b. 13 May 1914
- Sgt. Sugar Ray RobinsonU.S. Army · Joe Louis boxing troupe · b. 3 May 1921
- Pvt. Willie MaysU.S. Army · Fort Eustis, Virginia · b. 6 May 1931
- 1st Lt. Arthur AsheU.S. Army · U.S. Military Academy, West Point · b. 10 Jul 1943
- Lt. (j.g.) David RobinsonU.S. Navy · Civil Engineer Corps · b. 6 Aug 1965
- Capt. Mel PenderU.S. Army · 82nd Airborne · 9th Infantry Division · b. 31 Oct 1937
Founder · Kevin Clark
A content aggregator for more than two decades, with a career spanning media literacy, content delivery and the curatorial science of museum-exhibit production. Executive producer on the PBS documentary For Love of Liberty; writer of Victory by Valor, a social-media timeline of American heroes who played on the playing fields and fought on the battlefields.
Track record · as told by Kevin Clark
- · Producer of For Love of Liberty (PBS) — winner of the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Documentary, 2011.
- · Raised $4 million for the film.[verify]
- · Wrote the For Love of Liberty curriculum and distributed it to 3,000 classrooms (grades 10–16) and 24 U.S. Army battalions for morale and retention.[verify]
- · Created a U.S. Army × General Motors cross-promotional event at CAA, contracting Hall of Famer Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.
- · Manager of Anthony Powell's Portraits in Black — one of the world's largest African American military collections.
- · Developed an Ethnic Studies curriculum on the timeline of the Buffalo Soldiers developed by the National Park Service.
- · Developed H.E.R.O. workshops for service-disabled veterans and wounded warriors, adopted by the Veterans of Foreign Wars, Los Angeles chapter.[verify]
- · Livestreamed Veterans Day screenings and Q&A for LAUSD, Compton and Los Angeles community colleges.
In development
The Fallen 66 · Homage to the Fallen 89 — mini-doc · Memorial Day 2026 curricula + promotional trailer · Tuskegee Airmen Fallen Roll Call — no dates promised; see the H.E.R.O. Project page.
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