Mr. SOUL! - Yale Watch Party and Q&A

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March 25, 2021
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Join us for a special Watch Party and LIVE Q&A, for the Yale University.

Following the screening of Mr. SOUL!, the virtual discussion will include Melissa Haizlip, director of Mr. SOUL!, and Yale Professors Thomas Allen Harris and Daphne A. Brooks..

Thursday, March 25 at 6PM EST.

Before Oprah, before Arsenio, there was Mr. SOUL! From 1968 to 1973, the public television variety show SOUL!, guided by the enigmatic producer and host Ellis Haizlip, offered an unfiltered, uncompromising celebration of Black literature, poetry, music, and politics.

Featuring rare live performances and interviews from: The legendary Al Green, Patti LaBelle, Earth, Wind & Fire, heavyweight champion Muhammad Ali, Sidney Poitier, Cicely Tyson, James Baldwin, Nikki Giovanni, Gladys Knight, Stevie Wonder, Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes, Billy Preston, Bill Withers, Sonia Sanchez, Wilson Pickett, Kool & the Gang, Toni Morrison, Roberta Flack and many more!

SOUL! was the first national show to provide expanded images of African Americans on television, shifting the gaze from inner-city poverty and violence to the vibrancy of the Black Arts Movement.

Video Descriptions

Mr. SOUL! at Yale 2021

Special Screening of Mr. SOUL!

109min 40sec

Moderator

  • Mr. SOUL!

    From 1968 to 1973, the public television variety show SOUL!, guided by the enigmatic producer and host Ellis Haizlip, offered an unfiltered, uncompromising celebration of Black literature, poetry, music, and politics—voices that had few other options for national exposure, and, as a result, found the program an improbable place to call home. The series was among the first to provide expanded images of African Americans on television, shifting the gaze from inner-city poverty and violence to the vibrancy of the Black Arts Movement. With participants’ recollections and a bevy of great archival clips, Mr. SOUL! captures a critical moment in culture whose impact continues to resonate.

Participants

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    Melissa Haizlip

    Panelist

    Director/writer/producer of Mr. SOUL!

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    Thomas Allen Harris

    Panelist

    Senior Lecturer, African American Studies & Film and Media Studies.

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    Daphne A. Brooks

    Panelist

    Professor of African American studies and Theater Studies at Yale University

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