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StoryCorps: "A Family Man" [Animated]

from StoryCorps :
A Family Man
In 1955, John L. Black, Sr. started his job as a janitor for the Cincinnati public school system. He regularly put in 16-hour days to provide for his wife and eleven children. At StoryCorps, his son Samuel talks with his wife, Edda Fields-Black, about his father's lasting legacy and the power of a look.

Ill Doctrine: Why Gwyneth Paltrow Should Just Say "Nuh"

Ill Doctrine: Why Gwyneth Paltrow Should Just Say "Nuh" from ANIMALNewYork.com on Vimeo.


How Gwyneth Paltrow should've handle the controversy surrounding her tweeting the "N-word" this weekend.

Urban Cusp Interviews Issa Rae of Awkward Black Girl

From UrbanCusp:
Urban Cusp LA Correspondent Jamila Webb interviews filmmaker Issa Rae, creator of The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl. Jamila is an actress, writer, and co-creator of the web series Friendly Confines.

Stereotypes - What Color is Your Music?

iamOTHER:
Do you consider "black music" to be R&B and rap, and "white music" to be rock and opera? Think again.

Mobile Media Matters: Investigating Wireless/Mobile with Dialed-In: A Cell Phone Literacy Toolkit

From The Center for Media Justice
There are 234 million cell phone subscribers in the United States, 45.5 million of whom own smartphones. By the end of 2011, the consumer electronics industry was expected to bring in more than $190 billion. A remarkable share of that revenue is coming from people of color, who are adopting smartphones at faster rates than white consumers and are doing far more with them.

Accessing the Internet on mobile phones is usually the first doorway to the broadband service for most rural, low-income, migrant and communities of color. Our communities use it to surf the Internet, send and receive messages, engage social media and produce or publish media on their phones. This is why it's so crucial that we understand how our mobile phones work. What are our privacy rights? What type of information is being shared about us? How can we use our mobile devices to create, organize and communicate?

The Dialed-In toolkit will help provide some insight on the questions of our day as it relates to cellphones and mobile devices. It was produced as a collaboration between the Center for Urban Pedagogy, Media Literacy Project, the Institute for Popular Education of Southern California and People's Production House. Each organization produced four complementary sections of this curriculum including a documentary video, media literacy exercises, mobile policy workshops and activities for re-imagining cellphones as devices for documentation and personal expression. This webinar highlights several sections of Dialed-In including workshops to prompt conversations about cell phone infrastructure and how people can influence this framework, encourage students to think critically about how meaning is shaped by different types of mobile communications media, demystify the cellphone as a commodity and envision a more connected relationship to mobile technology by enriching the potential use of cell phones. Webinar participants are guided through several workshops as the facilitator shares recent experiences teaching several units of the curriculum in classroom settings with adults and youth.

Transition: Zina Saro-Wiwa on Returning to Natural Hair

The filmmaker Zina Saro-Wiwa presents an Op-Doc on black women’s decision to embrace their naturally kinky hair, rather than use chemical straighteners.

The Wire: The Musical with Michael Kenneth Williams

The Wire: The Musical with Michael Kenneth Williams from Michael Kenneth Williams     

Funk Music and Superheroic Black Masculinities

from White Scripts and Black Supermen: Black Masculinities in American Comics  (dir. Jonathan Gayles)
Dr. Scot Brown is a professor of History and African American Studies at the University of California at Los Angeles. Hailing from Rochester, NY, he went on to earn doctoral and masters degrees in History and Africana Studies from Cornell University. Prior to joining the faculty at UCLA, Brown taught at the Université d’Haute Bretagne in France, San Francisco State University, University of Houston and Cornell University. 
Brown is the author of the pioneering book, Fighting For Us, a study of cultural nationalism and the Black Power movement during the 1960s. He is the author of many scholarly articles on popular culture and political movements. Dr. Brown has appeared in historical documentaries including the prize-winning– 41st and Central: The Untold Story of the L.A. Black Panthers– and most recently the TV ONE television series “Unsung,” with its episode on the R & B band known as “Heatwave.”

Bert Williams in 'A Natural Born Gambler' (1916)

BritishMovieDrama;
A lovable scoundrel is busted for gambling and thrown into jail, where he dreams of playing poker - but even in his dreams, he loses.

Cast
Bert Williams ... The Hon. Bert Williams, walking delegate

Directed By Bert Williams
Written By Bert Williams
Produced By Bert Williams


Details
Country: USA
Release Date: July 24,1916

Nicole Ari Parker Talks "Street Car Named Desire"

Nicole Ari Parker Talks with Black Enterprise.