March 2015 | Black Public Media

Top 10 Reasons Mary Lou Williams Should Be Your Favorite Jazz Musician

Cassandra Jensen | March 31, 2015

She moved with the times. The Lady Who Swung the Band was not a one-genre woman. Blues, swing, bebop . . . you can trace the trajectory of 20th-century jazz straight through her life. She even embraced the free jazz of the 1970s.

National Black Programming Consortium Selects Eight Projects for NBPC 360 Incubator

Black Public Media | March 19, 2015

“The overwhelming response to NBPC 360 demonstrates two things: first, that there’s truly no shortage of topics and stories centering on the Black experience, and second, there’s a funding gap in the early development of such projects, a gap that NBPC 360 can fill.”

After 180 Days

Black Public Media | March 18, 2015

After 180 Days: Hartsville, a panel discussion will explore in more detail the vision for Hartsville, how Sonoco Products Company is making a difference, and how other school districts can learn from the Hartsville experience as well as look at recent developments in statewide public policy and education issues that need to come together to … After 180 Days

180 Days: Hartsville Premieres March 17th on PBS

Black Public Media | March 5, 2015

The series introduces viewers to a family struggling to make ends meet, including Monay Parran, a high school dropout and single mother struggling to raise three children while juggling two jobs, and her bright son Rashon, a fifth-grade student in West Hartsville Elementary, whose behavior is threatening his own educational future.

180 Days: Hartsville

Black Public Media | March 5, 2015