TV Series - Black Writers in America

Every once in a while you find inspiration when you least expect it. Like when you’re unwinding on the couch in your pj’s, knowing you should be unloading the dishwasher. Instead you flip aimlessly through 1,000 useless TV channels until you’re captured by the amazing and debonair Ossie Davis and he introduces you to several incredible black authors. A half hour later you’re enlightened, inspired and proud of what black folks are doing and have done.

I’m describing Black Writers in America a public television series that featured prominent African American poets, novelists, playwrights and essayists. Obviously the series is not current as Ossie Davis died in 2005 but the interviews are still totally compelling. Each episode features interviews with contemporary authors including Walter Mosley, Terry McMillan, Arthur Flowers, Ishmael Reed, Elizabeth Nunez, Tim Reid, and Junot Diaz who take us through their creative processes and discuss the struggles of race, identity and sexuality in their exceptional works.