The Stream The mammy, Jezebel and "angry black woman" – All are stereotypes of African American females used by whites to justify...
Series Launch: Scheherazade (epic)
Oil House Productions Conceived by and starring Tanji Gilliam , Ph.D./M.F.A. ( Room Tone , Blind Man Walking ), the show is an epic tale of...
Wealth Gap Between Whites & Blacks Tripled
HuffPost Live A study shows that the wealth gap between blacks and whites has tripled between 1984 and 2009. The median white family is 8 t...
Israel's African Migrant Dilemma
AJE The Stream Does Israel have the right to turn away undocumented migrants? According to a report, Israel has secretly sent more than 1,0...
Promo: Sex, Desire & Pleasure in an Age of 'Scandal' on the March 4th 'Left of Black'
Tune in this Monday, March 4th at 1:30pm to watched the live airing of Left of Black's Scandal episode with Brittney Cooper and Treva...
Schomburg Center Panel: Marlon Riggs Retrospective
NBPC A live discussion about the work of visionary filmmaker and race and LGBT activist Marlon Riggs with Cornelius Moore , Rhea L. Comb...
Jasiri X Discusses the One Hood Media Academy
1 Hood Media Jasiri X recently sat down with talk show host Lynne Hayes-Freeland to speak about his upcoming album Ascension and the One ...
Let's Review Something: Sunrise
In honor of our most recent Lead Actress Oscar winner, Jennifer Lawrence, I decided to finally watch ‘Sunrise’, the 1927 Oscar winner (Best ...
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Black Arts Live: Race, Place & the Biographies of 8 Artists (Trailer)
Black Arts Live Black Arts Live! is an eBook and iPhone App curated by Tammy L. Brown, PhD. Centering on the biographies of eight, up-and-...
Excerpts from 'King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis'
Democracy Now In a Black History Month Special, we air excerpts of a rarely seen Oscar-nominated documentary about Dr. Martin Luther King...
Mini Moments with Big Thinkers: Christopher Emdin
Teachers College Professor Christopher Emdin. He talks about using rap and hip-hop as a science teaching tool, and he demonstrates a rap he...
Oh, and a quick note on the Oscar fashions...
No matter what angle you look at this, it's PERFECTION. Jennifer Lawrence was easily the best dressed last night. She looked like a pr...
Oscar Thoughts
Would you join this Oscar orgy? So, last night was eventful and quite surprising in some respects. It was fun, despite not all gelling, but...
SHOT (today is "VIDEO") of the Week: "Nicole Kidman winning Best Actress"
Denzel Washington presenting the Best Actress Oscar® to Nicole Kidman for her performance in The Hours - the 75th Annual Academy Awards® in ...
Independent Spirit Awards 2013 winners list (complete)
It seems Silver Linings Playbook started what I'm predicting being its glory weekend with the right foot: we can call it the "Big ...
Academy Awards 2013 winners predictions
BEST PICTURE Silver Linings Playbook The crowd-pleaser that nabed 8 Oscar nominations in all the "major categories" (Best Picture,...
Scholarship, Advocacy, and Activism: Duke Faculty Perspectives on Human Rights – Nancy MacLean
Franklin Humanities Professor Nancy MacLean draws connections between her studies of twentieth-century political movements and human rights...
FAAN Mail Talk Back: K'naan & Self Censorship
FAAN Mail On December 8, 2012, Somali born Canadian hip hop artist K'naan wrote an Op Ed in the New York Times about how is record labe...
Left of Black S2:E20 | Critic Greg Tate Talks Black Science Fiction, Consuming Black Culture & the Late Butch Morris
L eft of Black S2:E20 | Critic Greg Tate Talks Black Science Fiction, Consuming Black Culture & the Late Butch Morris To underst...
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