With Understanding Comes Empathy We will break down barriers to learning … Columbus native Wil Haygood ’76, journalist and author of nine nonfiction books, including Tigerland, Colorization, and The Butler, which was made into a critically acclaimed film, received the 2022 Ambassador Richard C. Holbrooke Distinguished Achievement Award this fall from the Dayton Literary Peace Prize Foundation. His vast body of work has “led readers to a better understanding of other cultures, people, religions, and political points of view.” In the following excerpts, Haygood talks about what he writes and why. 28
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Wil Haygood ’76 with Winnie Mandela, wife of imprisoned Nelson Mandela, in South Africa in 1990 before the racially segregated system of apartheid fell.