A Reading With Wil Haygood: Colorization, One Hundred Years of Black Films

315 Cleveland Avenue,Columbus OH 43215

25 October, 2021

Description

Join author Wil Haygood for a free reading/Q&A featuring his new book "Colorization: One Hundred Years of Black Films in a White World." Columbus State students, faculty, staff and members of the general public are invited to a free in-person author event featuring Columbus native and famed author Wil Haygood. His forthcoming book, Colorization: One Hundred Years of Black Film in a White World, examines 100 years of Black movies using the struggles and triumphs of the artists, and the films themselves, as a prism to explore Black culture and the civil rights movement in America. Haygood has authored multiple nonfiction books including The Butler: A Witness to History (2013); Showdown: Thurgood Marshall and the Supreme Court Nomination That Changed America (2015); In Black and White: The Life of Sammy Davis, Jr. (2003) among others. In 2018, he published Tigerland: 1968-1969: A City Divided, a Nation Torn Apart, and a Magical Season of Healing, and curated an art book related to the Harlem Renaissance titled I, Too, Sing America. For nearly three decades, Haygood was a journalist, serving as a national and foreign correspondent at The Boston Globe, where he was a Pulitzer Prize finalist, and then at The Washington Post. Colorization will be available Oct. 19 and is available for pre-order. EVENT DETAILS Free parking available in any Columbus State lot. Seating opens at 1 p.m., and the program will begin at 1:30 p.m. in the fourth-floor conference center of the Center for Workforce Development, 315 Cleveland Avenue, Columbus, OH 43215. Copies of Colorization will be available for purchase with a book signing from 2:30-3:30 p.m. The event is free to all but registration is required. Masks are required to attend all in-person programs and events at Columbus State.