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HBO Announces Call For Entries For 2019 Asian Pacific American Visionaries Short Film Competition

July 15, 2018 / Front Page, Uncategorized, Video Channel

Three winners will have their works premiere on HBO in 2019. Shown is the 2018 reel highlighting the winner. HBO, home to the shows that everyone is talking about, announced today the call for entries for its third annual Asian Pacific American Visionaries, the leading short film competition showcasing cinematic storytellers of Asian and Pacific Islander descent. The top three winners will receive cash prizes and the opportunity to premiere their works on HBO (and/or its on-demand, digital and/or social […]

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Viewpoint: Old School and New School

July 15, 2018 / Video Channel

The Reverend Al. Sharpton, rapper Pharoahe Monch and Rapper Young Paris join Ari Melber to discuss the week’s biggest news stories, including a new indictment by Special Counsel Mueller that charges 12 Russian agents with hacking Clinton email servers and attempting to meddle in the 2016 election. » Subscribe to MSNBC: http://on.msnbc.com/SubscribeTomsnbc

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Oprah reacts to new exhibit “Watching Oprah” at the Smithsonian

June 25, 2018 / Front Page, Uncategorized, Video Channel

New Exhibit – “Watching Oprah: The Oprah Winfrey Show and American Culture,” at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture continues through June 2019. The exhibition uses the story of Oprah Winfrey and her 25-year daytime talk show as a lens to explore contemporary American history and culture, especially issues of power, gender, and the media.

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In NYC until June 24: Ishmael Reed’s LIFE AMONG THE ARYANS, directed by Rome Neal at the Nuyorican Poets Cafe

June 14, 2018 / Video Channel

Life Among the Aryans, with director Rome Neal, is the latest work from Ishmael Reed, the American poet, novelist, essayist, and Pulitzer-Prize nominee. The show will only run until June 24 so take advantage of this opportunity to walk-through history by envisioning an unimaginable future of circumstances that are beyond the control of any one person or community. Neal shares not only his words of introduction but also his signature banana pudding with all who attend. This show is truly filled […]

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Real Estate Mogul Jay Morrison Raises $9.6 Million In First Seven Days of Historic IPO of First African-American Owned Real Estate Crowdfund

June 11, 2018 / Front Page, LifeStyle, Video Channel

Atlanta-based real estate mogul Jay Morrison recently announced the initial public offering (IPO) launch of the Tulsa Real Estate Fund, the first African-American owned Regulation A+ Tier II crowdfund designed to revitalize urban communities across the U.S. Tulsa Real Estate Fund, The People’s Fund, is a real estate crowdfund qualified by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) that allows both accredited and non-accredited investors to collectively invest and own real estate projects around the country that are unique, diversified and yield a […]

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Issue of ‘colorism’ explored in Francesca Andre’s film – “Charcoal”

June 3, 2018 / Front Page, Video Channel

Francesca Andre’s film – Charcoal – captures the stories of two black women, as they embark on a lifelong journey to overcome internalized colorism, find self-acceptance, and ultimately redemption. Her film can be view at various upcoming film festivals— 1)June 7: New Haven Documentary Film Festival at Whitney Humanities Center Caribbean Lens International Film Festival 2) June 16: International New York Film festival. To view the video trailer, click here. Francesca Andre is a filmmaker, photographer and producer with a masters in film and television from Sacred Heart University. […]

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On Broadway: Denzel Washington in “The Iceman Cometh”

May 28, 2018 / Front Page, National, Video Channel

Denzel Washington stars in Eugene O’Neill’s “The Iceman Cometh,” reprising his role basically because he’s a genius. Please see this special report from “The Root”. The Iceman Cometh centers on Hickey (Washington), a conflicted man who passionately encourages fellow alcoholics in a New York City bar to abandon their pipe dreams and take hold of harsh realities, eventually revealing secrets from his own past.

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Racism In America – Documentary Reveals The Untold History Of Our Nation

April 15, 2018 / Uncategorized, Video Channel

The film ‘An American Story: Race Amity and the Other Tradition’ explores the moral counterweights to the tradition of racism in America and how we can move together towards our nation’s motto – ‘E Pluribus Unum’. This thought-provoking, inspiring and emotional film tells the story of cross-cultural friendships that tackled racism and inequality in the past. This racial amity has come to be known as ‘the other tradition’ of America and today, paves the way for us all to engage in positive discourse and action, in the […]

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Madison Reed Commits to Using “Raw” Photography

March 1, 2018 / Intersection Exhibit, LifeStyle, Video Channel

New photos feature women over age 50 feeling confident and beautiful, no retouching necessary Madison Reed, a prestige hair color brand, applauds the movement toward authenticity in advertising and announces that it is advancing the cause with a pledge to use unaltered, raw photography. In these images, nothing will be adjusted. Hair color will be shown “as is.”With Madison Reed, confident is the new beautiful.Going forward, Madison Reed pledges zero alteration […]

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