#Taal movie story series

When it comes to Black America, we finally gotВ a film like Michael Schultz's вЂCooley HighвЂ™. вЂ¦ White America had вЂAmerican GraffitiвЂ™, a В film about high school joys with fun, slapstick humor. White America saw leading figures onscreen every day of the week. вЂњIt was wonderful to see a leading figure onscreen.

вЂњWhen I was a little Black kid, I saw Sidney Poitier in вЂLilies of the Field,вЂ™вЂќ Haygood said, recalling PoitierвЂ™s Best Actor Oscar in 1964, the first for a Black man. Not only did Haygood miss out on meeting Black artists while growing up in Columbus he also rarely saw them on the big screen. That didn't happen, but there is a light inside of me that wants to make it happen for this generation.вЂќ вЂњIt would have meant the world to me if I would have had someone to look up to and hear these stories when I was coming of age there in town. I want them to grow up to become writers and filmmakers if that's what they want to do,вЂќ he said. вЂњI insisted, when I started talking to the powers that be in town, that I have a chance to share this story with junior high students and high school students and students who are in college and young filmmakers, because I think it's important that they see an artist at work. Just as important to Haygood, though, are the events with Columbus youth, such as an all-day film program for teens at the Columbus Museum of Art and talks for college students at Ohio State and Columbus State.

18 a screening of 1972 film вЂњThe ManвЂќ paired with a conversation between Haygood and Hanif Abdurraqib at Gateway Film Center on Wednesday, Oct. 17 a screening of Michael SchultzвЂ™s вЂњCooley HighвЂќ at the Wexner Center and a virtual conversation with Schultz on Monday, Oct. 16, followed by a conversation with Townsend on Sunday, Oct.

#Taal movie story series

In the leadup to the release, Haygood will visit Columbus for a series of film screenings, artist talks and readings tied to the book, including a screening of filmmaker Robert TownsendвЂ™s вЂњThe Five HeartbeatsвЂќ at the Lincoln Theatre on Saturday, Oct. HaygoodвЂ™s experience with the movie adaptation provided the spark for his forthcoming book, Colorization: One Hundred Years of Black Films in a White World, which comes out on Tuesday, Oct. But a 2008 Post story about a White House butler led to his most well-known book, The Butler: A Witness to History, and a popular 2013 movie, The Butler. Along the way, Haygood wrote multiple books, including biographies of Sammy Davis, Jr. In the coming years, Haygood would follow in PeeksвЂ™ footsteps, writing for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, working as a national and foreign correspondent for the Boston Globe for 17 years, then writing for the Washington Post. вЂњI remember calling my mother that night after dinner and saying, 'Mom,В I met a real live author.вЂ™вЂќ As you know, that was Hemingway's publisher,вЂ™вЂќ said Haygood, who was awestruck. вЂњHe said, вЂYou might be interested in this. Haygood took him up on the invitation, and after dinner, Peeks brought the young copy editor into his study. вЂњHe had written a book about Martin Luther King, Jr., and he came over to me on my first day at the newspaper and said, вЂHey, I'd like to invite you to dinner.вЂ™вЂќ

вЂњHe was the only other Black on the newspaper,вЂќ Haygood said in a recent phone call from his home in Washington, D.C. It was there, at the age of 26, that Haygood met his first author, Edward Peeks. Wil Haygood was born and raised in Columbus, and after a brief stint in New York City following his graduation from Miami University in 1976, Haygood rode the bus from Columbus to Charleston, West Virginia, to begin his journalism career on the copy desk of the Charleston Gazette.