'Best of Enemies' special screening planned in Durham

Tickets go on sale Friday for a special Durham screening of the upcoming film "The Best of Enemies."

The screening is planned March 19 at Carolina Theatre of Durham. The film, which stars Academy Award nominee Taraji P. Hensonand Academy Award winner Sam Rockwell, focuses on an unlikely friendship between a civil rights activist and Klu Klux Klan leader that helped lead to school desegregation in Durham in 1971.

The film is based on a true story, chronicled in the book "The Best of Enemies: Race and Redemption in the New South” by Osha Gray Davidson.

General admission tickets ($15) and VIP tickets ($100) go on sale at 10 a.m. Friday. VIP tickets include a wine reception with Davidson and film's producer Robin Bissell and a signed copy of Davidson's book.

Net proceeds from the event go to benefit the Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival, an organization dedicated to ending systematic racism and the injustices of poverty and inequality.

A screening of the film and panel discussion will also take place at Duke University on March 20. Tickets to that screening will be made available to the public on March 6. A book signing with Davidson is planned prior to the screening.

"The Best of Enemies" hits theaters on April 5.