Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Remembrance and celebration will be key parts of the event Aug. 28 in Topeka to mark the 60th anniversary of a monumental day in ...

Writer-director Kevin Willmott, third from left, with the cast of "The 24th," about the Houston Riot of 1917. A familiar face in Kansas filmmaking who has ties to Salina is returning to the city this ...

LAWRENCE, KS — Early Tuesday morning, the Writers Guild of America announced that its members are now on strike, bringing much of the American film and television industry to a halt. The strike pits ...

Kevin Wilmott talks on KCUR's Up To Date on May 31, 2023 about the film “No Place Like Home: The Struggle Against Hate in Kansas.” Kevin Willmott is best known for his Oscar-winning movie ...

Kevin Willmott is pictured speaking at an event at KU in 2021. A documentary capturing one of Kansas City’s first Black police officers and the city’s first Black department director, Alvin Brooks, ...

Wednesday was a momentous day for Oscar-winning filmmaker Kevin Willmott, whose stirring and significant latest film, “The Heroic True-Life Adventures of Alvin Brooks,” premiered at the Screenland ...

Oscar-winning screenwriter Kevin Willmott, center, discusses the film “No Place Like Home” with author C.J. Janovy and Kansas Public Radio producer Kaye McIntyre. Willmott directed “The 24th,” which ...

Academy Award winner Kevin Willmott liked what he saw Monday evening as he looked out upon the racially diverse audience attending a Topeka celebration of the anniversary of a monumental day in the ...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – Academy award winning filmmaker Kevin Willmott will speak in Little Rock about work throughout his career. The Arkansas Cinema Society and the University of Arkansas Little Rock ...

Film director Kevin Willmott will visit Arkansas next week for two special events -- a public talk hosted by the Arkansas Cinema Society on Monday, and a lecture at the University of the Ozarks on ...

LAWRENCE, Kan. – Academy Award winning film director and University of Kansas professor Kevin Willmott shared his insight on the federal holiday Juneteenth with the Kansas men's basketball team ...

Remembrance and celebration will be key parts of the event Aug. 28 in Topeka to mark the 60th anniversary of a monumental day in the struggle for civil rights, says Academy Award winner Kevin Willmott ...