For a while we here in the NBPC labs of Black-ness have been mixing and matching various new media concoctions to engage the masses on issues that range from Black masculinity, to a big hurricane mess named Katrina, and recently we sent some talented filmmakers to Haiti to capture the voices of real Haitians dealing … Black Hot Fresh Summer Preview!
“I just got off the red eye from Tokyo so if I stumble, you’ll know why.” These were the first words from Al Gore at his Keynote presentation for the 2011 Games for Change conference, after a warm and loud round of applause from a group of about 800 attendees gathered at NYU’s Skirball Center … “Al-Gore” Rhythms & Girl Power @ G4C 2011
Unity Productions Foundation has made a short film for the web, and it is a strong example of arts/media/culture as an empowering form of resistance. Anti-Muslim hatred, otherwise dubbed as Islamophobia, has gripped this country for many years and has grown quite visibly in the last decade, during the ‘War on Terror’. Muslims have been … My Fellow American