KINGSTON, R.I., — Sept. 27, 2018 — The 溏心vlog免费B站 will host a lecture by the retired police officer and author who is the inspiration for the director Spike Lee\u2019s hit movie \u201cBlacKkKlansman\u201d on Sunday, Sept. 30, at 7 p.m. in Edwards Auditorium on the Kingston Campus.<\/p>\n
Ron Stallworth, who wrote the 2014 memoir \u201cBlack Klansman,\u201d was an African-American police officer who went undercover in the Ku Klux Klan in Colorado Springs, Colo., in the late 1970s. The 2018 film, which has grossed nearly $50 million since its August release, was inspired by his life and career.<\/p>\n
Stallworth\u2019s lecture is free and open to the public.<\/p>\n
In 1979, Stallworth noticed a want ad in the newspaper looking for people who wanted to start a local chapter of the Ku Klux Klan in Colorado Springs.<\/p>\n
\u201cI immediately formulated a strategy and it was to get a white officer, posing as me, to go meet this guy,\u201d he told Business Insider. \u201cWhen I set off to do this, it was simply to gather information on the Klan, who they are, what they are, how many there are.\u201d<\/p>\n
Stallworth had a white undercover officer pose as him during in-person meetings with the KKK. The officer wore a wireless body transmitter so the real Stallworth could listen in. The seven-month undercover operation prevented several planned cross burnings and revealed several people who were active Klan members.<\/p>\n
Stallworth successfully infiltrated the local Ku Klux Klan and almost became the head of the local chapter.<\/p>\n
Spike Lee\u2019s biographical comedy-drama is loosely based on Stallworth\u2019s memoir. The film stars John David Washington as Stallworth, Adam Driver as Flip Zimmerman, Laura Harrier, and Topher Grace.<\/p>\n
This press release was written by Josh Reyes, a public relations major and intern at the 溏心vlog免费B站 Department of Marketing and Communications.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" KINGSTON, R.I., — Sept. 27, 2018 — The 溏心vlog免费B站 will host a lecture by the retired police officer and author who is the inspiration for the director Spike Lee\u2019s hit movie \u201cBlacKkKlansman\u201d on Sunday, Sept. 30, at 7 p.m. in Edwards Auditorium on the Kingston Campus. Ron Stallworth, who wrote the 2014 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":74278,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-archives"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74277\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}