From the 60 Minutes archive: August Wilson

[@ronkirk5099]

I've seen many of his plays and he was a national treasure. His works will be a lasting legacy. RIP Mr. Wilson.

[@MelancoliaI]

A national treasure. But first and foremost a Pittsburgh treasure.

[@chriscuben1198]

Brilliant. August Wilson wrote with truth and that's why his art is timeless. We are blessed to experience his genius.

[@AfroSamurai1089]

Viola was always destined for mastery of her craft. Fantastic that she's built such a fruitful relationship with August Wilson's work.

[@brandonleja8333]

And as a Pittsburgher I can now smile that his childhood home has been beautifully restored.

[@SKY77713]

Brilliant man! So glad his legacy lives on.

[@octopusmime]

Im going to buy every last one of his plays. It feels so great to discover this incredible talent. Thank you Mr. Wilson!!!

[@lamontdt424]

I saw the Broadway run in '92. I was in drama school at the time. We would get heavily discounted and sometimes free tix to shows. I was blown away. This year, thirty years later I'm finally getting to do the play myself. I'll be playing Memphis. Talk about full circle!!

[@christophercobb249]

Amazing, congrats to you!

[@lenovovo]

This is just GREAT!!! Believe it or not, I have learned a lot from watching this interview. Both of these guys are brilliant. It's so sad to know that both of these guys has passed away, but what they have done, which were very good things, makes them live on forever. Thanks 60 minutes for posting this video. Have a great day.

[@pt68picaso]

Care to see Ed Bradley sing harmony with George Burns, an old time vaudeville actor & comic? Search for Ed Bradley interviewing George Burns. Took place when Burns was 90+ years old, 1986-95. Not sure it's on KZbin, but it was memorable.

[@jenniferlivingston1776]

He love his mother and he did make her proud

[@m.layfette6249]

August Wilson is MY ABSOLUTE FAVORITE Author/Playwright!! As a writer, I use his prose style for inspiration. 💜🎭

[@deborahhoover9730]

Thank you for educating me about this brilliant man. Looking forward to reading more about him and his stories.

[@nannersguyaners2745]

I am just thankful for Mr Wilson’s life and work. God bless you Mr Wilson as your work keeps blessing us…

[@ritahassing2533]

Have seen his many plays, a Genius!

[@Ayesha_Michelle]

I pray all his plays are created into films easily accessible

[@gloriamitchell3518]

A Legend.

[@Nadene56]

11.19.2024 Thank you for posting ❤

[@misstoyaj]

My favorite playwright!

[@veryunknownutuber6145]

Wilson wrote for himself. What a great man.

[@valerielindsey4779]

How I wish I had discovered Mr Wilson earlier

[@barnabaswannabe4652]

Wow. What a beautiful story. Beyond a treasure, this man. God Bless, protect and guide his spirit wherever it is.

[@tmamone83]

Funny how he said he couldn't write dialogue during his first stab at play writing because one of the best things about Wilson is the way he writes dialogue.

[@andredarin8966]

We are a richer, wiser country because August Wilson lived-or we could be if we lived the lessons he taught.

[@fran8150]

I'm so glad to meet this wonderful black artist.

[@rosawest2972]

I Am just learning about him in 2024 after watching The Piano Lesson.

[@Sonny1065LV]

Legend.

[@blacksuitstudios]

Wow look at a young Viola Davis 😱

[@ng-r8765]

Watched The Piano Lesson last night 23/11/24!

[@SuperSpace2009]

Wow! Amazing interview! Ma Rainey Black Bottom with Viola Davis brought me he here! And to see this presentation and see Viola Davis again in his play King Headly comes full circle I was floored when I saw her! She was meant to play Ma Rainey and did an outstanding job! August Wilson shows the Black experience is! It may be about race but it is the truth! Wish it was something else but its not! This is what we experience every damn day! Notice how his says they say he is the angry playwright. Yes that is true! From his experiences! They couldn't say he was a great playwright. Put he gets labled.Do they label white playwright! August Wilson is real! Great man!

[@Bill-ou7zp]

"Art first. Life first." That hit.

[@nattaliegordon4553]

I’m here on the heels of my play reading in Alaska. Someone on the discussion panel had a lot to say about my play ‘Rice and Roundworm’ and ended with “August Wilson would be proud of you.” So here I am, trying to know more about the man himself.

[@brutusalwaysminded]

"What did you do in the library?" 😅 Come on, Ed.

[@PeteMcCorvey]

I first found out about August Wilson in 10th grade taking drama. We read Fences. Its been my life goal to see or be in one of his productions.

[@rashawn2323]

10:46 Viola Davis trademark “snot cry” lol

[@DavidemetriLIC]

Incredible soul💯🚀🛸🥇so inspirational

[@07ikkin]

I just realized Viola Davis acts in many of his films/plays. Fences, Ma Rainey, and King Hedley

[@YAAMW]

We need to evolve past racism.

[@pamelalabriado6735]

Very informative 👏

[@SOXLUVER777]

Just saw Joe Turner’s come and Gone. Everything he wrote was genius

[@dawnwallace7876]

This was very interesting I learn facts alert facts about mr. August Wilson

[@starlinpena4943]

i too am a playwright and novelist wilson is my inspiration

[@ErikaSoto-fo6lr]

@starlinpena Love your profile pic choice lol

[@starlinpena4943]

@@ErikaSoto-fo6lr thank you very much im a huge raulin rodriguez fan

[@indrataylor3149]

🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿

[@TayDays1128]

anybody have the full version of James earl jone's fences

[@LucasTCaceres4253]

The fact that the woman doesn’t want to have a child reminds me of In The Ghetto, by Elvis Presley, if you listen to the lyrics, it’s about a mother who has a child that struggles to take care of him, and he eventually goes onto roam the streets at night and he begins to steal, until he tries to steal a car and is gunned down in the street. She doesn’t want to have a child for that reason.

[@fabioazevedo9457]

Is it Viola Davis at 9:43?

[@pt68picaso]

yes.

[@BugsAndWombats]

I'm looking for a movie/documentary about Wilson where there's an amazing story of his funeral procession through the streets of the Hill District told by those who were part of it (I know Wynton Marsalas was one). I believe it is the end of The Ground on Which I Stand but not sure. Sound familiar to anyone?

[@128pm8]

August Wilson: The Ground on Which I Stand

[@sdk0524]

@11:46…and this was filmed years ago.

[@galileoshift8330]

Shift I just discovered mr August Wilson . Ma Rainey Black Bottom Film. thanks his friend screen writer Ruben S Hudson & Dir George Wolfe - Denzel Washington produced 2020 film viola Davis & Chadwick Bosman jolted my Life’s life with urgency the beautiful rarity of black culture & self respect & personal integrity

[@sha11235]

Wonder what other works he would've written had he not died after finishing the Decalogue of plays.

[@siriuslyspeaking9720]

We applaud the messenger but ignore his message. How can this video have only 23 comments nearly 23 days since its posting? He told a truth that is as obvious as the difference between night and day. Elijah Muhammad and the NOI told long before Wilson that we were lost. We are floundering and spiraling towards an even bleaker future, but we act as if all is well. At 2:28 Wilson says " basically I'm trying to affirm the value of Blacks, and to demonstrate their humanity". Isn't this a central theme of Black social and political expression to day. We do a lot of proclaiming the value of our lives, but are we really affirming our lives and demonstrating their value in our actions? I argue that we have gone in the opposite direction. At about 9:45 Bradley and Wilson talk about his play King Hedley II, that deals with economic disintegration and violence in Black communities. Wilson attributes this violence to a disconnection of Black people from our roots. Wilson goes on to say that without roots and traditions that instructs you how to conduct yourself - you just wonder all over the place. Does this not accurately describe our condition today? That even Hip-Hop seems to have forgotten its roots and tradition it seems almost from the very start? Much of Hip- Hop seems to have forgotten the 'Stop The Violence Movement' of the 80's. Today many associated with it say "Black on Black crime is not a thing". This is a shift and yet no one will talk about this change in stance on violence in our communities. One of our most prominent intellectuals who is highly associated with Hip-Hop goes so far to say "to talk about Black people killing one another, makes us loo pathological". What was wrong with us speaking out against it, and asking of people to stop with the senseless self destruction, before? This is Black people gas-lighting ourselves, when we see what is happening and don't acknowledge the major problem it is, and the illogic of us proclaiming to the world the value of our lives, yet begin to take a cavalier attitude toward the loss of so many of our lives. What would Wilson write about us today? Could we even bear to watch, or would we simply not acknowledge what we are seeing?

[@pt68picaso]

You're right about NOI. Malcolm X autobiography covers NOI. I recall '60's & maybe '50's part of X's book. He met up with E.M. & pilgrimed to Mecca. Rev. Wright, Al Sharpton, & Jessie Jackson only come to mind as today African American spiritual leaders. X & M.L.King assassinations in the '60's was a set back. But there's POTUS #44 - Obama.

[@kasnarfburns210]

It's interesting that when he stopped going to school, none of the school administrators raised a flag!! Imagine that happening today. At least he didn't go down a path of criminality. I hope he enjoyed all of the fruits of his success in his short time on earth!!

[@pt68picaso]

They must have, but then again he was 15, black in 1960. Six years after Brown v. Board of Education. Age 16 you could stop back in the '70's.

[@christopherbrownmaaga4668]

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[@LawandGossip]

Viola Davis doesn't age ever

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The piano lesson

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bill Moyers interviews August Wilson

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Black journey

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[@donikajorgo5612]

Life first. Agree. But you see there in USA this discrimination. Every where have even for us whites people. When I come emigrant here in Gr my small Child comes at home 3 times with blood in face. BECAUSE of emigrant. It's the culture not the race. It's educated society too. Black people have the higher level stamped educated in every aspect of life who deserves have a special place in high quality of administration. Which for white people becomes luxury.

[@anodyne57]

Huh?

[@christopherbrownmaaga4668]

Can't write dialogue

[@horaceblair6880]

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