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Color of Medicine, The: The Story of Homer G. Phillips Hospital [Played Oct. 12 as part of AARP's Movies for Grownups and available on Tubi, Amazon Prime Video, and various VOD platforms.] Joyce Fitzpatrick and Brian Shackelford's eye-opening, factually based, informative, insightful, moving, inspirational, unsettling, 110-minute, 2018 documentary about influential lawyer Homer Gillian Phillips who was instrumental in establishing the innovative, 635-bed African-American hospital in St. Louis, Mo., where numerous Black physicians and nurses received their training between 1937 and 1979 amidst segregation and civil unrest and consists of archival photographs and commentary by HGP advocates Walle Amusa and Ron Gregory, Princeton University doctoral candidate Ezelle Sanford III, HGP hospital medical alumni (such as Earle U. Robinson, Mary Ann Tillman, James M. Whittico Jr., Helen Nash, Oliver W. Page Jr., Nathaniel H. Murdock, Walter Everette McDonald, Nikolaus Hans Blevins, Field Theodore Blevins, and Oscar Jackson), author and historian John A. Wright, HGP hospital x-ray technician Julia N. Allen, former St. Louis resident Robin Billups, radio personality and HGP senior living facility resident Doug Eason, HGP senior living facility residents Jacqueline Ewing and Bettye Thames-Jackson, HGP senior living facility resident and staff Sandra Williams-Wilson, professors Bernie Hayes and Will Ross M.D. MPH, educator and George B. Vashon Museum curator Calvin Riley Jr., St. Louis American newspaper publisher and Executive Editor Donald M. Suggs DDS, author and editor Candace O'Connor, producer Rebecca Robinson-Williams, Washington University Arts and Sciences Dean Wilmetta Tolivar-Diallo, physicians Homer Nash M.D. and Alison Nash M.D., Sumner High School Principal Christopher McNeil, Washington University pre-med students Keaira Clancy and Daelen Morris, medical records librarian Doretha Washington, Life's Big Picture Executive Vice President Lamont Shannon, high school English teacher Jeffrey Bo Dean, and HGP Nurses Alumni Association members Georgia Anderson, Martha A. Nelson R.N., Jobyna Foster, Rachel Light Montgomery, Mattie J. McAllister R.N., Joanne Amusa R.N., Frances Massey, Zenobia Thompson, Laverne Eldridge R.N., Juliette Johnson R.N., Johnnye E. Farrell, and Celestine Moore.   Redhead: Year: 2022 Rating:  NR View Color of Medicine, The: The Story of Homer G. Phillips Hospital on the Internet Movie Database