Career
This led to producing Baldwin"s AMEN CORNER in Europe, and Donald McKayle"s BLACK NEW WORLD both in Europe and in New York City on station WNDT. With SOUL!, a one-hour series on W National Educational Television in New York City, Haizlip presented five years of mixed entertainment and public affairs on Public Broadcasting Service. He introduced and/or featured many singers and political figures, such as Nickolas Ashford and Valerie Simpson. Poet Nikki Giovanni, minister Louis Farrakhan, Muhammad Ali, and Amiri Baraka LeRoi Jones). SOUL! is now getting new recognition as a ground-breaking and socially important television show, and Haizlip is being considered the guiding force in that African-American Renaissance.
Haizlip died of lung cancer in January 1991.
After his death, a number of his fellow artists, including writer Amiri Baraka, gathered in New York City at the Cathedral of Saint John the Divine to hold a performance in his memory.
