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Kevin Wilmott Truman Medical Centers-University Health black history discussion.

A Conversation with Kevin Willmott during Black History Month February 23, 2021 at Truman Medical Center/University Health ‘s Equity, Diversity & Inclusion department in conjunction with the Diversity & Inclusion Council. Academy award winner Kevin Willmott, the creator of From Separate to Equal: The Creation of Truman Medical Center, discusses the groundbreaking documentary as it relates today in light of the COVID-19 pandemic and the historical health inequities that persist in the U.S. Willmott is an Academy Award and Bafta Award winning screenwriter and filmmaker who has written and directed several feature films including Ninth Street, CSA – Confederate States of America, The Only Good Indian, The Battle for Bunker Hill, Destination Planet Negro! and Jayhawkers. He and Spike Lee co-wrote Blackkklansman, which won the Oscar for best adapted screenplay in 2019. He teamed with Lee again in 2020 co-writing Da Five Bloods, which was just selected as the best film of 2020 by the National Board of Review. Willmott recently completed the critically acclaimed The 24th, about the Houston riot of 1917. He is also a playwright and works as an activist for peace and civil rights issues. Willmott is a graduate of Marymount College of Kansas and NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. He is a Professor in the Film and Media Studies Department at The University of Kansas. If you haven’t watched From Separate to Equal, take an opportunity to see it before the discussion: https://www.trumed.org/about-us/history/    • From Separate To Equal