![]() ![]() I went to the Garden Theater on North High Street. These were my first forays alone outside of my home. In the 1960s when I was a kid, my mother, in Columbus, Ohio, she would give me 50 cents every Sunday to go to the movies. Wil Haygood: I think in a way, it started when I was a kid. On Haygood’s inspiration for the four-year project: Simpson trial, to the Black Lives Matter movement. Using the struggles and triumphs of the artists, and the films themselves-from Gone with the Wind to Blaxploitation films to Black Panther-as a prism to explore Black culture, civil rights, and racism in America, Haygood makes clear the effects of changing social realities and events on the business of making movies and on what was represented on the screen: from Jim Crow and segregation to white flight and interracial relationships, from the assassination of Malcolm X, to the O. Journalist and acclaimed author of The Butlerand Showdown Wil Haygood joins Michael Schultz to present Colorization, his kaleidoscopic, deeply-researched history of Black cinema. ![]()
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