Mr. SOUL - Ellis Haizlip, Visionary

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Mr. Soul! (2018)

Full Cast & Crew

Directed by 

Melissa Haizlip
Samuel D. Pollard

Writing Credits (in alphabetical order)  

Melissa Haizlip

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(writer)

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ELLIS HAIZLIP AND THE BIRTH OF BLACK POWER TV

Right on the heels of the Civil Rights Movement, one fearless black pioneer reconceived a Harlem Renaissance for a new era, ushering giants and rising stars of black American culture onto the national television stage.

He was hip.
He was smart.
He was innovative, political and gay.

In his personal fight for social equality, this man ensured the Revolution would be televised.

The man was Ellis Haizlip. The Revolution was SOUL!

Haizlip was the host and executive producer of SOUL!, the first “black Tonight Show.” In 1968, SOUL! was launched as a local, New York broadcast. In 1969 the series rolled out nationwide on PBS, on WNET Channel 13. By 1973, Haizlip had produced over 130 hour-long shows featuring a dazzling array of A-list guests: Sidney Poitier, Harry Belafonte, James Baldwin, Stevie Wonder, Maya Angelou, Ashford and Simpson, Nikki Giovanni, Al Green and Muhammad Ali -- even a sixteen-year-old Arsenio Hall doing magic tricks.

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Mr. SOUL is a "Treasure" from the late 1960s.  

Ellis Haizlip - ELLIS HAIZLIP is the man you are being shown here.

HALLOWEEN, October 31, 2018, is the BUZZ.

PLACE:  

JAN SERR STUDIO CINEMA
2155 N. Prospect Avenue, Milwaukee, WI

TIME:  6 PM

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