{"id":131894,"date":"2026-09-02T08:00:32","date_gmt":"2026-09-02T12:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/?p=131894"},"modified":"2026-09-02T07:45:46","modified_gmt":"2026-09-02T11:45:46","slug":"sept-8-415-p-m-carpenter-lecture-wil-haygood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/sept-8-415-p-m-carpenter-lecture-wil-haygood\/","title":{"rendered":"Sept. 8 @ 4:15 p.m. &#8211; Carpenter Lecture &#8211; Wil Haygood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Join the English Department on Tuesday, Sept. 8, at 4:15 p.m. in the Benes Rooms in Ham-Wil Campus Center for this year&#8217;s Carpenter Lecture.<\/p>\n<p>This year our visiting lecturer is Wil Haygood, and he will be reading from his book &#8220;Colorization: One Hundred Years of Black Films in a White World.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cBestselling author, prize-winning journalist, acclaimed biographer, and cultural historian Wil Haygood tells the story of America through the lens of history, politics, sports, race and the lives of change-making African-Americans. Haygood\u2019s book, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Colorization: One Hundred Years of Black Films in a White World<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, gives an unprecedented history of Black cinema and a groundbreaking perspective on racism in modern America. Haygood uses the struggles and triumphs of the artists, and the films themselves, as a prism through which to explore Black culture and the civil rights movement.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>OWU Sponsor: English Department<br \/>\nContact: Angelina Amato at <a href=\"mailto:amamato@owu.edu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">amamato@owu.edu<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Join the English Department on Tuesday, Sept. 8, at 4:15 p.m. in the Benes Rooms in Ham-Wil Campus Center for this year&#8217;s Carpenter Lecture. This year our visiting lecturer is Wil Haygood, and he will be reading from his book &#8220;Colorization: One Hundred Years of Black Films in a White World.&#8221; \u201cBestselling author, prize-winning journalist, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2425,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-131894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campuswide-news-events"],"blocksy_meta":{"styles_descriptor":{"styles":{"desktop":"","tablet":"","mobile":""},"google_fonts":[],"version":7}},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131894","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2425"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131894"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131894\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":131940,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131894\/revisions\/131940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}