Conversations with Allan Wolper

Wil Haygood: Racism and The Academy Awards


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Author Wil Haygood believes that Hollywood is finally becoming emancipated. Haygood had accused the Academy Awards in 2014 of being “culturally biased” against African American actors and filmmakers when it declined to give a single nomination to the critically praised ,The Butler, the story based on the life of Eugene Allen, a black butler in the White House who served eight presidents. Haygood wrote the Washington Post profile of Allen that inspired the movie, was an associate producer of the
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