Black Public Media (BPM) wants Americans to BE HEARD! this election season. The Harlem-based nonprofit focused on media content about the global Black experience has commissioned Color Farm Media to create BE HEARD!, a get-out-the vote social media campaign designed to engage the African American community around key issues surrounding the November 3 election. The […]
Ballet Hispánico, the nation’s leading Latino dance organization since 1970 and recognized this year as one of America’s Cultural Treasures, collaborated with Google Arts & Culture as part of the Latino Cultures in the U.S Exhibit. Online visitors can discover Ballet Hispánico’s new exhibit, featuring more than 150 images and seven visual stories on the mission and history […]
Mattel, Inc. has announced the grand opening of the Fisher-Price Toy Museum, a virtual museum designed to celebrate the brand’s 90-year legacy. This first-of-its-kind virtual experience, which will be hosted on Instagram, enables visitors to relive their favorite toys through a curated exhibition. The museum also includes a digital gift shop that offers an assortment of apparel, […]
WORLD Channel, a national public media broadcast, online and social media platform with news and documentaries humanizing complex issues from across the globe, is presenting Race in America, a series of iconic documentaries and events exploring historical and cultural stories about race and civil rights in America. Beginning in October 2020, WORLD Channel, in partnership with […]
Public Enemy’s single “Grid” featuring Cypress Hill and George Clinton “is a love letter to hip-hop’s golden era (and the classic Def Jam roster’s role in it), full of withering political analysis, blistering boom-bap and rap-rock productions (Vulture).” Today, the group has released an animated video for the single directed by Ice the Endless, with background by ThatOneDudeZach and visual […]
Carla LynDale Bishop has been selected as the inaugural recipient of the MIT & Black Public Media Fellowship, hosted by MIT Open Documentary Lab and sponsored by MIT Center for Art, Science & Technology. Part of BPMplus — the Black Public Media (BPM) initiative focused on eliminating barriers for Black makers to help increase their participation in […]
Grammy Award-winning icon Dionne Warwick will be featured in a live concert performance from Las Vegas on Friday, Oct. 16, 2020, at 9 pm EST/8 pm Central time. The event will be streamed via the Music Park Network – available on Apple TV, Roku TV, Amazon Fire TV, (iOS, and Android). For more information visit: www.musicparknetwork.com
Jamil McGinnis and Pat Heywood’s short film Gramercy examines a young black man struggling with depression. This topical short received its world premiere at the 2020 Locarno Film Festival, where Variety named it one of the festival’s not-to-miss shorts. It was also programmed by Academy Award-winner Barry Jenkins at this year’s canceled Telluride Film Festival. […]
Dominican Film Festival in New York City (DFFNYC) will hold its ninth edition online from October 20-30. These challenging circumstances have not prevented the festival from continuing to be the largest and most impressive film festival outside the borders of the Dominican Republic. DFFNYC official program will include a roster of 70 films and offering […]
“Ask Wanda Professional Review Services” launches company that provides quality professional services for authors within a wide variety of genres. Prior to launching her company, Wanda has reviewed books for authors such as C. F. Hawthorne, author of “Every Black Eye” and Hope Clarke, author of bestseller, “The Empress of Supreme Drama”. Recently, Ask Wanda […]
“The Queen of Harlem Commandments” is now available on Amazon Kindle. The book has received a 91% positive rating and has received 4.9 out of 5 stars on Amazon.com. “The Queen of Harlem Commandments” is the first book by Michelle Smalls, a Harlem powerhouse who turned her pain into prosperity by following a code of […]
THE PERFECT WEAPON, an HBO documentary special based on the best-selling book by New York Times national security correspondent David E. Sanger, will debut FRIDAY, OCTOBER 16 at 8:00PM ET/PT. Directed by John Maggio, the film explores the rise of cyber conflict as a primary way in which nations now compete with and sabotage one another. Cheap, invisible […]
HBO Latino’s new stand-up comedy special SHAYLA RIVERA: IT’S NOT ROCKET SCIENCE debuts on FRIDAY, OCTOBER 9 (9:30-10:00 p.m. ET/PT) on HBO Latino and available to stream on HBO Max. Rivera has made a name for herself, not only as a comedian, but also as an Aerospace Engineer, former Rocket Scientist with NASA, keynote speaker, Writer, Producer, and as […]
Executive Producer, Writer and Actor Tamala Baldwin, is pleased to announce that the first season of her award-winning series “Bubbly Brown Sugar” will be premiering on the new streaming service, UrbanFlix TV. Independently produced in New York, with a cast and crew of over 30 individuals, Bubbly Brown Sugar the nine-part series revolves around two […]
Conflict is ever present in our lives. From the socio-economic issues we were born into, to current health and social issues in the news, conflict is a common denominator and how we handle conflict can determine the outcome of our lives. In Break the Curse, author, entrepreneur, and professor, Steve Kelley, shares how to beat […]
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