Carnegie Author Series featuring Wil Haygood
Date and time
Wil Haygood comes to Main Library to discuss his new book "Colorization: One Hundred Years of Black Films in a White World".
About this event
CARNEGIE AUTHOR SERIES
Author Talk featuring Wil Haygood
Sunday, Oct. 24
Main Library
1 p.m. | Library opens.
1:15 p.m. | Live music from the Urban Jazz Coalition with special guest Craig "Superfly" McMullen
2 p.m. | Author Talk with Wil Haygood
2:45 p.m. | Audience Q&A
3-4 p.m. | Book Sale & Signing. Urban Jazz Coalition musicians
**Proof of full vaccination or a negative COVID-19 test is required to attend this event.**
Join us for a free in-person author talk at Main Library featuring Columbus native 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.
Come early to hear music from Urban Jazz Coalition musicians who will play a variety of theme songs from well-known films featured in Colorization. Guitarist Craig "Superfly" McMullen is the featured performer.
Thanks to our partners at the King Arts Complex for coordinating the special musical guests.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
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 Wil 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 is set to publish in October 2021.
EVENT DETAILS
Free parking available in Main Library's attached garage. Library opens at 1 p.m. for seating, and the program will begin at 2 p.m. in the second floor Reading Room.
A Friends of the Library book sale and author signing will follow.
The event is free to the public but registration is requested.
Proof of full vaccination or a negative COVID-19 test is required to attend this event. Masks are required to be worn at all times by order of the City of Columbus and Library Board of Trustees.