'Mr. SOUL!' documentary recounts timely story of historic PBS Black arts/culture series
As the poster says, before Oprah and Arsenio, there was Ellis Haizlip. Haizlip, who died in 1991 at 61, is the “Mr. SOUL!” of the new documentary of the same name, about the groundbreaking weekly Black arts and politics program that he created and hosted—as America’s first Black TV host--on public television from 1968 to 1973. Originating on New York’s flagship PBS station WNET Channel 13, it was the first nationally broadcast all-Black variety show, conceived as a “Black Ton