Gregory S. Cooke has recently appeared in My Father’s War: How Pearl Harbor Transformed America, and World War II Battles in Color: The Bulge – powerful documentaries about African American participation in World War II.
Gregory is the creator of Invisible Warriors: African American Women in World War II, a critically acclaimed, feature-length documentary that illuminates the experiences of 600,000 “Rosie the Riveters” – pioneers who courageously triumph over racism, sexism and classism to create job opportunities in industry and government for themselves and future generations of African American women. Invisible Warriors is an inaugural recipient of the Better Angels/Lavine/Ken Burns Fellowship (2020), and also received the Congressional Black Caucus, Veterans Braintrust Award (2019).
Gregory is the Executive Producer and driving force behind the documentary, Choc’late Soldiers from the USA, a “hidden story” of 140,000 African American men and women who form an unexpected bond with British civilians during World War II. Choc’late Soldiers received the first ever Congressional Black Caucus Veterans Braintrust Award for film in 2014, and won film awards at Indiefest and Bakersfield, 2013.
Gregory earned his BA/English, American International College, and MA/Journalism, The Ohio State University. Gregory coaches former students and teaches them the ways of “The Force.”