Culturally Obsessed Director Melissa Haizlip Talks New Documentary Mr. Soul! (Season 2, Episode 14)
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Culturally Obsessed

Director Melissa Haizlip Talks New Documentary Mr. Soul! (Season 2, Episode 14)

TV Episode | Talk-Show

Culturally Obsessed's Jennifer Ortega talks with award-winning director Melissa Haizlip about her newest documentary Mr. Soul. Mr. Soul. streams on HBO Max starting August 22nd, 2021. Premiering in 1968, SOUL was the first nationally ...See moreCulturally Obsessed's Jennifer Ortega talks with award-winning director Melissa Haizlip about her newest documentary Mr. Soul. Mr. Soul. streams on HBO Max starting August 22nd, 2021. Premiering in 1968, SOUL was the first nationally broadcast all-Black variety show on public television, merging artists from the margins with post-Civil Rights Black radical thought. Visionary producer-turned-host Ellis Haizlip-openly gay and committed to charting new aesthetic territory-brought the avant garde into the mainstream by foregrounding poetry and politics. Debuting icons like Patti LaBelle, Ashford and Simpson, Earth, Wind and Fire and Arsenio Hall alongside early legends such as Toni Morrison, James Baldwin, Stevie Wonder, and The Last Poets, Haizlip's keen ear for talent propelled a cultural shift so powerful it pushed Nixon into action. Written by Anon See less