Month: April 2012

MONDO BLACK went on the road to visit with some of today’s vibrant artistsmixing movement, music and media – and re-inventing “black art identity” alongthe way. We call this episode MONDO BLACK: “We Like The Way We Move.”First MONDO BLACK hooked up with composer/choreographer Grisha Coleman — Assistant Professor of Movement at Arizona State University … Mondo Black: Black Art 2.0

MONDO BLACK gets up close and personal with Jomama Jones, “more diva starlet than drag queen”– and visits with award-winning poet, writer, performer and actress Pamela Sneed to discuss international activism, gender identification, and the written and spoken word.

In this episode of the exploratory series, Mondo Black brings viewers on to the soil of a remarkable farm that provides better food, education while rebuilding the environment and quality of life in East New York Brooklyn.

Herbal traditions have historically been a part of African tradition. MONDO BLACK traveled to visit practitioner and educator Ekere Tallie in Queens and Sacred Vibes Healing Apothecary in Brooklyn to discover the roots of the urban apothecary and herbal healing in the ‘hood.

To answer the question, “Just who are thee people getting paid to play slaves in 2011?” Mondo Black vists, the scholars researchers and historians who bring to life an authentic, often painful depiction of slavey in America at Colonial Williamsburg, VA.

Visit the set of AfroPoP 4.0 with host funny man Wyatt Cenac of the Daily show, see what it takes to bring the AfroPoP episodes together as AfroPoP 4.0 arrives with four new titles from the African Diaspora, from Los Angeles to Mali, exploring the lives and contemporary cultures of modern black life.

The Olutunmbi’s is the eight month endeavor by filmmaker Temitope Olutunmbi to document and explore his relationship with religious faith and family. The piece is a cerebral and poetic take on the journey to come of age. Through a blend of observational, verite and conventional documentary techniques, the film unfolds in a series of overlapping … The Olutunmbis

In a wonderfully textured narrative style, African American filmmaker Regi Allen makes a sojourn to three West African countries to discover for himself the truth behind the myths that separate black identity in Africa from black identity in the Diaspora. With a critical lens often pointed at himself, Allen creates an intoxicatingly chaotic film that … 10 Days in Africa

Mandisa was produced as part of the National Black Programming Consortium’s New Media Institute: Africa project when it traveled to Durban South Africa in 2008. Working with the local arts center, Ekhaya Multi Arts Center, in the township of Kwa Mashu, students were tasked with capturing interesting short documentary stories about South Africa. Mandisa tells … Mandisa

Film-maker George Amponsah and twin brother Ben, a former British army officer, return to Ghana, their ancestral homeland. They meet their father for the first time in twenty years. The journey provokes a series of bittersweet questions in the brothers about identity, similarity and difference.