http://www.blackpublicmedia.org/blog Watch.Discuss.Engage Thu, 19 Jan 2012 15:09:59 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Sh*t White Girls Say to Black Girls is one of the latest videos to take the Internet by storm, having been viewed by over 4 million in less than a week. The creator, Franchesca Ramsey, a young, dark skin, Black woman with locs throws on a blond wig and goes ... http://www.blackpublicmedia.org/blog/urban-chameleon/sht-white-girls-say-to-black-girls%e2%80%9d-rocks-the-boat/ You may recognize funnyman Wyatt Cenac from his stints as a correspondent for the Daily Show. You can also see him soon as the host of our new upcoming AfroPoP season, season 4! Recently NBPC held the AfroPoP production shoot in a Williamsburg studio, and we brought some flavor into the ... http://www.blackpublicmedia.org/blog/afropop/wyatt-cenac-hosts-afropop-season-4-0/ My mother always said, “You are different, you don't play by the same rules.” These are words I live by, especially since I work in corporate America. Last week I had my semi-annual review. Things were going really well until my boss went over his hand ... http://www.blackpublicmedia.org/blog/urban-chameleon/i-try-very-hard-to-act-brown-but/ Years ago in college, I was cast in a school play. I had one line, “You muthafucka!” It was the quintessential, Black girl neck rolling and Sam Jackson-esq, urban tone in which I delivered the line each night that made the audience guffaw on cue. Even though I am a ... http://www.blackpublicmedia.org/blog/urban-chameleon/exploitation-of-black-women-in-media-when-keeping-it-real-goes-so-wrong-but-right-for-donald-trump/ Alright, if any of you follow my Facebook page you may have seen my post about traveling on a Friday afternoon. I rarely travel on a Friday if a I can help it, and when I do, I try to book an early morning flight to avoid crowds and delays. ... http://www.blackpublicmedia.org/blog/nbpcnews/a-doing-your-doc-weekend-oct-14-16/ I am writing and sharing this as I have no idea how much this story will get covered, or not. Please feel free to share this. I woke up today as I'm sure many of you did thinking of how I get to wake up today, and Troy Davis doesn't. I ... http://www.blackpublicmedia.org/blog/news/whose-streets-our-streets-nyc-and-troy-davis-92211/ This weekend will bring a new Martin Luther King Jr. memorial to Washington DC, and it is reviving a lot of conversation about the man, his mission and his tactics. PBS.org shared with us a very rare interview from 1957 featuring Dr. King on the classic "An Open Mind" PBS ... http://www.blackpublicmedia.org/blog/news/the-new-negro-rare-mlk-interview/ For a while we here in the NBPC labs of Black-ness have been mixing and matching various new media concoctions to engage the masses on issues that range from Black masculinity, to a big hurricane mess named Katrina, and recently we sent some talented filmmakers to Haiti to capture the ... http://www.blackpublicmedia.org/blog/nbpcnews/black-hot-fresh-summer-preview/ "I just got off the red eye from Tokyo so if I stumble, you'll know why." These were the first words from Al Gore at his Keynote presentation for the 2011 Games for Change conference, after a warm and loud round of applause from a group of about 800 attendees ... http://www.blackpublicmedia.org/blog/nbpcnews/al-gore-rhythms-girl-power-g4c-2011/ Unity Productions Foundation has made a short film for the web, and it is a strong example of arts/media/culture as an empowering form of resistance. Anti-Muslim hatred, otherwise dubbed as Islamophobia, has gripped this country for many years and has grown quite visibly in the last decade, during the 'War ... http://www.blackpublicmedia.org/blog/diaspora-voices/my-fellow-american/