William Greaves October 8 1926 August 25 2014 was a documentary filmmaker and a pioneer of AfricanAmerican filmmaking He produced more than two hundred documentary films and wrote and directed more than half of these Greaves garnered many accolades for his work including four Emmy nominations one of which he won for his work as executive producer on the AfricanAmerican news program Black Journal Description above from the Wikipedia article William Greaves licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia