Proudly We Served Streaming on American LegacyXL

MOUNT VERNON, N.Y. - Aug. 18, 2015 - PRLog -- (Mount Vernon, NY) – August 18, 2015…American Legacy announced today that as it prepares to launch   American LegacyXL, a streaming video service in February 2016, it is currently streaming free of charge Proudly We Served narrated by Ossie Davis.  The documentary film focuses on the men of the USS Mason, the Destroyer Escort during World War II manned by African-Americans.  In addition to historical and classic movies, subscribers to American LegacyXL will have access to original television programs based on American Legacy magazine’s content, access to American Legacy’s digital archives for back issues and research purposes and will receive American Legacy’s monthly E-Newsletter. American LegacyXL will also produce original history oriented programming geared to Millennials.

In making the announcement Rodney J. Reynolds American Legacy’s founder, stated “This is a thrilling true story of the USS Mason (DE 529) and its crew, the only African-American sailors to take a U.S. Navy warship into battle during World War II.  They challenged the segregation of the U.S. Military, fought the Nazi  U-Boats, and won.”  In addition to the movie viewers will be able to read and download the original article that appeared in American Legacy’s Spring 1996 issue! “Proudly We Served is an example of the type of programming that will be available on American LegacyXL when it launches in 2016 said Reynolds.”

American Legacy Magazine was founded in 1995 as a joint venture between Reynolds’ RJR Communications, Inc and Forbes Magazine. RJR Communications assumed full ownership of the magazine and all related assets of the joint venture in January 2009. Total readership of American Legacy  was over 2 million when the print edition went on hiatus in 2011. The company launched an E-Newsletter in April 2013 and its mobile truck exhibit has continued to visit school districts, African-American festivals and colleges and universities across the country since 2008. In addition, the company sells black history curriculum products to the K-12 school market.

The mission of the American Legacy brand is to broaden and enhance the awareness of African-American history and to become a leading diversified media company through the use of educational products, mixed media, collaboration projects, the internet, broadcast media and special events.  Visit www.americanlegacyXL.com.  American LegacyXL…Where African-American History Lives Every Day!