Kevin Willmott

Oscar-award winning filmmaker and University of Kansas professor Kevin Willmott will premiere his new documentary, "The Heroic, True-Life Adventures of Alvin Brooks," on Wednesday at the Juneteenth Film Festival at Screenland Armour.

Martin Luther King, Jr. would start 1968 — one of the most tumultuous years in American history — with an event at Kansas State University. Just months before his assassination, the speech was his last on a college campus.

"Da Five Bloods" focuses on the journey of five Black veterans. Though they returned home from the war with their lives, they were met with discrimination and racism.

Spike Lee and Kevin Wilmott's latest film shows the struggles of Black men who fought in the Vietnam War, a central Kansas town weathers the pandemic while facing challenges to reopening, and the health benefits of spending time in nature is exemplified by forest bathing.

Kansas City Star columnist Melinda Henneberger talks about being a Pulitzer Prize finalist, screenwriter Kevin Wilmott shares recommendations on what to stream while stuck at home, how and whether to do romance and dating in the age of COVID-19, and one Kansas City neighborhood salutes health care workers.

Segment 1: How voters are feeling the day after the 2020 Missouri Democratic Primary.Yesterday’s primary in Missouri and several other states may have…

Segment 1: Kevin Willmott delivers his acceptance speech. Kevin Willmott won an Oscar for BlacKkKlansman in the category of Best Adapted Screenplay. But…

Update: Feb. 25.When Spike Lee's "BlacKkKlansman," a satire about race in America, won an Academy Award Sunday night for best adapted screenplay, one of…

Segment 1: River of Refuge is a nonprofit organization that helps transition homeless families into permanent housing.River of Refuge had a history of…

As the filmmaker's latest collaboration with Spike Lee becomes the must-see movie of the moment, we talk to Kevin Willmott about BlacKkKlansman, race in…

Director Spike Lee’s "BlacKkKlansman," which won the Grand Prix at the Cannes Film Festival in May, is finally opening in theaters nationwide. Lee's…

Segment 1: A talk with Kevin Willmott about his new film."BlacKkKlansman" just won the Grand Prix at the Cannes Film Festival. It's based on the true…