USA TODAY
Spoiler alert! Contains details about the final scene of One Night in Miami, streaming now on Amazon Prime.
The civil rights-era drama (now streaming on Amazon Prime) depicts a fictionalized meeting between four Black legends – Sam Cooke (Leslie Odom Jr.), Malcolm X (Kingsley Ben-Adir), Jim Brown (Aldis Hodge) and Cassius Clay (Eli Goree) – as they debate issues of activism and art in a Miami motel room.
The film culminates in a tearful performance of Cooke s A Change is Gonna Come on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson in February 1964, intercut with scenes of Malcolm and his family escaping their burning house after a firebomb attack, and Cassius changing his name to Muhammad Ali upon joining the Nation of Islam. It s an electrifying moment, made even more powerful knowing the real history behind the song itself.