![]() Lecture Southern Methodist University Willis M. Asante directed and produced The Black Candle (2012), a documentary about Kwanzaa, co-written and narrated by Maya Angelou.Īsante has delivered numerous lectures, including the Yale University Master's Tea Vanderbilt University Walter R. ![]() Asante wrote and produced the 2005 documentary 500 Years Later, a documentary about slavery which received the Breaking the Chains Award from UNESCO. Poet Maya Angelou, who mentored Asante, described Buck as "a story of surviving and thriving with passion, compassion, wit, and style." Films Īsante is a Sundance Institute Feature Film Fellow for the movie adaptation of his memoir Buck. It was also included on the In the Margins Book List in 2014. ![]() Buck was selected as a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers pick and made the Washington Post bestseller list in 20. ![]() Cover of Buck: A Memoir ( Random House) by MK AsanteĪsante is the author of four books, most notably Buck (2013), a memoir about his troubled youth in Philadelphia. ![]()
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