AUTHOR WIL HAYGOOD SHARES HIS STORIES ON C-SPAN2 -- NOON SUNDAY MAY 1

HAYGOOD'S EXAMINATION OF RACE RELATIONS IN THE 1960S ARE INCREDIBLY RELEVANT TO THE DIVISIVE RHETORIC OF THE PRESIDENTIAL RACE OF 2016 

My dear friend and writing mentor Wil Haygood will be on In Depth this weekend.

The blurb:

Author Wil Haygood talks about his life and career and responds to viewer calls and questions.

Mr. Haygood’s most recent book is Showdown: Thurgood Marshall and the Supreme Court Nomination That Changed America.

Airing LIVE Sunday, May 01 12:00pm EDT on C-SPAN2

http://www.c-span.org/video/?408684-1/depth-wil-haygood

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