Winners are chosen each year by a diverse board of jurors through unanimous vote. Peabody Awards are presented for television, podcast/radio, and immersive and interactive media in the categories of entertainment, documentary, news, podcast/radio, arts, children’s and youth, and public service. Hashtags: #PeabodyAwards #StoriesThatMatter The 30 winners of the 82nd annual Peabody Awards will be named across major social media channels from Monday (June 6) through Thursday June 9 between 9:00 a.m. Rance and Hillman Grad Productions’ founder Lena Waithe and CEO Rishi Rajani.
Other executive producers, not already named, were record executive Ron Gillyard producer Stephanie T. The film was co-produced by Doug Blush and co-directed by Sam Pollard. The film was released in limited theaters and virtual cinemas on Aug. Soul! premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival in New York on April 22, 2018. He and Lalah Hathaway co-wrote and performed the end title song, “Show Me Your Soul.” Muhammad Ayers and Melissa Haizlip were also co-writers of the song. The documentary includes archival footage from the series, including interviews with Baraka, Poitier, Ali, Harry Belafonte and James Baldwin, among others, as well as performances from such artists as Green, Wonder, LaBelle, The Last Poets, Ashford and Simpson, and Earth, Wind and Fire.įour-time Grammy winner Robert Glasper provided the music for the doc.
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There exists, as far as I know, no TV program that deals with my culture so completely, so freely and so beautifully. Lo-and-behold, I saw Wilson Pickett, The Last Poets, was introduced to Barbara Ann Teer, Billy Preston, Stevie Wonder, Nikki Giovanni, Al Green experienced Bill Withers and Amiri Baraka. In that clip, he says, “But because I hadn’t seen enough images of myself, I watched. The doc includes a clip of Ellis Haizlip speaking about the show he created. By 1970, it was carried by 72 public television stations. While the show aired locally when it started, it soon spread across the country. (Poet Nikki Giovanni was also a frequent host.) Haizlip became the show’s sole host on Dec. Ellis Haizlip replaced Poussaint as co-host on Oct. The original co-hosts on that premier show were Alvin Poussaint, the noted Harvard psychologist, and educator Loretta Long, who one year later assumed the role of Susan Robinson on Sesame Street. Non-musicians who appeared on the program included heavyweight champion Muhammad Ali, Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan, minister-turned-politician Jesse Jackson, actor Sidney Poitier, and activist Kathleen Cleaver, wife of Eldridge Cleaver, an early leader of the Black Panther Party. While both shows presented top Black music acts, Soul! also presented figures from the worlds of poetry, literature and the Black Arts Movement. That was three years before Don Cornelius’ Soul Train launched in syndication (on Oct. Soul! premiered on WNDT (later known as WNET), the NET and PBS outlet in New York, on Sept. Ellis Haizlip died of cancer in 1991, at age 61.
Underwood provided the voice of Ellis Haizlip, reading from interviews, news articles, correspondence and journal entries.
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Haizlip also thanked three of her executive producers – producer and director Stan Lathan, who took over as director of the series in 1970 attorney Chaz Ebert and actor Blair Underwood. Now more than ever, we need a voice like Ellis Haizlip to help restore the soul of a nation.” “… Soul! is a love letter to Black culture, to Black love, to Black joy and to Black lives.
“Ellis Haizlip was an extraordinary producer, always pushing the culture forward with light and love and we wanted to do the same thing with this film,” she said, in a virtual acceptance. Haizlip, the documentary’s producer, writer and director, dedicated the award to her uncle, Ellis Haizlip, who was the original show’s creator, producer and host.
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