No longer in the background of Odd Future, the Los Angeles singer is finding her voice.
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Black News Channel to Launch in 2018, Organizers say – Tallahassee Democrat
The Black Television News Channel is scheduled to be launched next February in its home inside the Florida A&M University School of Journalism & Graphic Communication.
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Moonlight Director Barry Jenkins on What Scared Him Most About Making Such a Personal Film – Slate
In advance of the Oscars this Sunday, where Moonlight is up for eight awards including Best Picture, we’re reprinting this conversation from October 2016 between the film’s writer-director Barry Jenkins and Slate’s Aisha Harris.
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Why Hidden Figures should win the best picture Oscar – The Guardian
Theodore Melfi’s feelgood biopic about three African-American women working for Nasa in the 1960s breaks boundaries with a knowing kick of its kitten heel.
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See the Story Behind Danai Gurira’s ‘Eclipsed’ Play In This New Documentary – Okay Africa
You can now see the story behind the Broadway play that made history as the first to feature an all-black, all-women cast and creative team in this new documentary.
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‘Boondocks’ Creator Aaron McGruder Creating Drama Series for Amazon – Atlanta Black Star
Aaron McGruder, creator of cult-favorite “The Boondocks,” is teaming with producer-director Will Packer to create a new series for Amazon Studios.
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This Is Us Is TV’s Biggest New Hit. Sterling K. Brown Makes It Human. – Slate
Last year, Slate’s Aisha Harris hailed Sterling K. Brown’s performance as Christopher Darden on The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story for its powerful embodiment of the “double consciousness” involved in being a black man prosecuting one of black America’s greatest heroes.
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8 Films In BAM’s Black Women Festival That We’re Excited to See—And Why They Matter – Okay Africa
The only thing I love more than black women starring in movies, is movies made by black women.
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Claiming the Future of Black TV – The Atlantic
After a banner year for African Americans on television in 2016, can the industry normalize this success?
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Re-performing the Histories of African American Public Figures
In Written in Smoke and Fire, Edgar Arceneaux reappropriates blackface and examines the legacy of a quasi-sacral figure in national history, Martin Luther King, Jr.
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