[3] He was raised by his single mother in Mount Sterling, approximately 35 miles east of Lexington.
[2] White credited his friend, actor Sidney Poitier, with helping in get his first screenwriting job.
[1] Poitier hired White in 1992 to write the screenplay for a thriller called Red Money.
"[3] White was working on two screenplays at the time of his death in 2015 – a biopic on Bessie Smith titled Empress of the Blues, and a film focusing on Dinah Washington, which is in pre-production.
[1] White died from complications of liver and pancreatic cancer at his home in Santa Monica, California, on July 23, 2015, at the age of 67.