Thursday, March 11, 2010

Precious Blackness 2010

February 18, 2010 by Shawn Alexander  
Filed under Greenlight w/ Shawn Alexander

Precious Blackness 2010

This is about getting more than my (our, your) two cents in. Film-biz-wise. I’m not claiming to know it all. Don’t wanna. Just wanna share, discuss, ignore, react, analyze… you know the whole range.
That being said: where’s the post-racial love? Where, oh where, is our Obama-jama?!
One year later in our Prez’s history-making (-dealing, -breaking, et [...]

I’m Skip Gates, Bitch!

July 24, 2009 by Deshant Paul  
Filed under Politics

I’m Skip Gates, Bitch!

Henry Louis Gates, Jr. is a professor at Harvard University, which was recently voted by US News and World Report as one of the best universities in the country, and lives in the surrounding Cambridge, MA-area. When I was composing a look at living African-Americans for Black Heritage month I thought about including Mr. Gates [...]

ART – The Black List Project

March 13, 2009 by Sanaa Msemaji  
Filed under Art & Culture

ART – The Black List Project

The Black List Project: Timothy Greenfield-Sanders and Elvis Mitchell
November 21, 2008-March 29, 2009
Brooklyn Museum, Hall of the Americas, 1st Floor
200 Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn, New York 11238-6052
This exhibition of twenty-five portraits by internationally renowned photographer Timothy Greenfield-Sanders is a documentary project that explores being Black in America. Sanders also directed a series of filmed interviews conducted [...]