BLACKstream

by today's Urban Chameleon contributor As part of my ongoing effort to date Black men in spite of my endless queue of fair-skinned suitors, last week I attended an all-Black black tie event. It seemed like the perfect investment of time and money for a busy Wall Street banker, sistah girl like myself: an evening of dinner and dancing with a self-selected group of young urban professionals all in an effort to raise money for the kids. I was game. And wouldn’t you ... Read More

My first experience working in journalism was as a teenager interning for the public television series South Africa Now. This was in the 1980s at the height of the anti-apartheid movement and South Africa Now was one of the few outlets bringing news from the country during the State of Emergency – a time when the government had banned foreign news outlets. I remember sitting in a dark, dank room for hours transcribing interviews and organizing tapes. I was fascinated by this ... Read More

"Tell’em Who You Are" is a journey through South Texas to document the loss of land and recover buried memories, memories of armed struggles by ancestors to defend against newcomers who swindled away their livelihood, to protect land titles that proved their U.S. citizenship to a nation and a government that sought to make them second-class citizens. Journalist Michelle Garcia returns “home” to Texas, to the chaparral of mesquite, brush and cactus, a massive sky and small towns. As she makes a claim ... Read More

The Martin Luther King Jr. National Memorial will be the first on the National Mall to recognize a person of color and a man of peace, not a president or a veteran of war. In 1996 Congress authorized the Memorial Foundation to raise funds to establish a national memorial to honor the legacy of Dr. King on the National Mall. The memorial’s very existence signifies that we as a people believe Dr. King and his legacy ... Read More

NBPC recently partnered with Mississippi Public Broadcasting (MPB), the Crossroads Film Festival, the Mississippi Film Office, and New America Media to conduct a MojoCo (Mobile Journalism Collective) training in Jackson, MS, the first day of which was designed for journalists and local activists/citizens. The participants were very representative of the black/brown population in Mississippi. Each person chosen to participate in the training is connected to larger communities of color within Mississippi and will serve as an ambassador for the MojoCo project. They ... Read More