AUTHOR WIL HAYGOOD IS A NATIONAL TREASURE

COLORIZATION, HIS LATEST BOOK, IS A MUST-READ

Wil Haygood is one of America’s finest writers.

With each book, his storytelling grows more confident. His way with words that much more enticing and entertaining.

In addition to being an outstanding newspaper journalist with the Boston Globe and Washington Post, Haygood has produced several biographies of African Americans.

Colorization – One Hundred Years of Black Films in a White World, is not a book solely focused on racism. But racism in the film industry resonates all through the book. 

And spoiler alert: institutional and obscene racism didn’t end during World War II, during the great 1960s Civil Rights Movement, not with the rise of Spike Lee and frustrating – not well into the 21st century. 

Read my full review on Medium at:

https://stevewright-1964.medium.com/author-wil-haygood-is-a-national-treasure-colorization-his-latest-book-is-a-must-read-abefc83de686

WIL HAYGOOD BOOK NOMINATED FOR NAACP IMAGE AWARD

Showdown: Thurgood Marshall and the Supreme Court Nomination

The book Showdown: Thurgood Marshall and the Supreme Court Nomination That Changed America by Wil Haygood, Miami University visiting professor and alumnus, has been nominated for an NAACP Image Award.

Haygood (Miami ’76), the Karl and Helen Wiepking Visiting Distinguished Professor in the department of media, journalism and film, is a former Washington Post reporter and author of the story that inspired the film “The Butler.”

His newest book was released in September.

Showdown is one of five books contending for the Outstanding Literary Work – Non-Fiction category of Image Awards.

The NAACP’s Image Awards celebrate the accomplishments of people of color in TV, music, literature and film and honors individuals or groups who promote social justice through creative endeavors.

Winners will be announced Feb. 5.

Wil is our dearest friend and writing mentor for more than two decades.

His inspired writing would make a perfect holiday gift for anyone who cares American history told in vivid, poetic prose.

http://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/authors/42228/wil-haygood/ 

WIL HAYGOOD AT MIAMI BOOK FAIR THIS SATURDAY MORNING

Wil Haygood, a humble Columbus, OH native and my writing mentor

for life, will appear 11 Saturday 21 at Miami Book Fair

Shapers of History with Wil Haygood

Author of The Butler, Wil Haygood, details the life and career of one of the most transformative legal minds of the past one hundred years, in Showdown: Thurgood Marshall and the Supreme Court Nomination That Changed America.

The 1906 rampage of black soldiers stationed in Brownsville, and President Roosevelt’s controversial response to it, is the subject of Harry Lembeck’s Taking on Theodore Roosevelt: How One Senator Defied the President on Brownsville and Shook American Politics.

Harry Lembeck And Wil Haygood

Room 8301 (Building 8, 3rd Floor), 300 NE Second Ave., Miami

FREE/NO TICKET REQUIRED

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wil_Haygood