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The Rita Coburn Whack Collection document her work as a producer and radio host for Chicago public radio and documentarian for public television. The papers include forty-one audio episodes from public radio's Maria Tapp Show, Public Affairs, Latino USA and Eight Forty-Eight.
After five years planning, shooting and editing, Rita Coburn Whack and Bob Hercules had their documentary, Maya Angelou: And Still I Rise, play at Sundance last year. Now their biography of Maya Angelou’s life will be broadcast as part of the American Masters series this month on PBS.
Rita Coburn is a Peabody and Emmy Award-Winning Director, Writer, and Producer of radio, television, and film. Beginning her career as a producer and writer for various news outlets across the U.S., Coburn went on to produce for the likes of The Oprah Winfrey Show, Oprah Radio, Apollo Live!, and Walt Disney Productions.
Rita Coburn Whack 1958 –. Author, producer, radio personality. Began Career in Broadcasting. Published First Novel. Felt Responsible to Record Culture. Selected writings. Sources. It is not often that a new writer emerges who embodies the definition of a Renaissance woman.
Rita Coburn Whack, a novelist, television and radio producer, and on-air radio contributor, won an Emmy for writing in her documentary film, Curators of Culture: Chicago’s South Side Community Art Center, in 2005.
Rita Coburn Whack is a writer, television and radio producer, and on-air radio contributor. She is a two-time Emmy winner. Currently a contributor for WBEZ-FM, Chicago’s public radio station, she is married, a mother of two, and a resident of south suburban Chicago.
Filmmakers Rita Coburn-Whack and Bob Hercules knew only one thing for sure about one another when they first met: they both deeply admired the writer and activist Maya Angelou. They were also puzzled by the same thing: Why hadn't anyone yet made a documentary about the icon whose work had galvanized and inspired people for generations?
