BlackART Roots
The popularization of black art and culture is a story with many chapters. In these selections an attempt is made to reflect on those modes of art we claim as black and our reasons for doing so. So often removed or ignored from the popular lore, it seems a task we must take on to document our own place in the histories of the many forms of beauty we help evolve, dance, photography, filmmaking, all forms of visual media, and the list continues. Here is a selection for our consideration and constant reflection, our collection of the past for the sake of the future.
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Free To Dance: Go For What You Know 60 mins
A three-part documentary that chronicles the crucial role African-American choregraphers and dancers played in the development of modern dance as an American art form.
Free To Dance: Steps Of The Gods 60 mins
Katherine Dunham's year in the Caribbean, during the 1930s was both an anthropological field trip and a journey in search of her own roots.
Free To Dance: What Do You Dance 60 mins
"What Do You Dance?" begins the story of the evolution of a uniquely American form of movement with African...
What does it mean to be a man? The Masculinity Project will gather multi-generational voices to explore...
"Africa: Open For Business" probes into the world of successful African businesses and exposes myths...
An honest perspective of the world would not be near complete without the younger voices of any generation...
Tales of the Diaspora are many and here a global cross section will be selected to give life to contemporary...
The language of media production and distribution is one that has often written its own script. The artist...
Voters’ Rights Seized due to Incarceration
Once behind bars, most prisoners lose the right to vote and even after they are released they don’t...
PRX Talent Quest ~ State of Reunion 50mins
The Public Radio Exchange's Talent Quest offers up this brilliantly produced potential series for national radio distribution.
PRX Talent Quest ~ State of Reunion 50mins
The Public Radio Exchange's Talent Quest offers up this brilliantly produced potential series for national radio distribution.
Black Filmmakers On Film: Byron Hurt 23mins 34secs
Filmmaker Noland walker interviews other black media makers on past and present projects.
NMI 2007 ~ Sojuke 2mins
A poem by poet Bryonn Bain, accompanying the 2007 NMI project Juke Joint Live.
Voters’ Rights Seized due to Incarceration
Once behind bars, most prisoners lose the right to vote and even after they are released they don’t...
NMI 2006 ~Black Hole 2 mins
A video-textural exploration of the physics of well-being as it relates to blackness.
NMI 2006 ~ The Other Side 3mins 16secs
Ever wondered what would happen if you kept throwing a tennis ball at a wall?
NMI 2007 ~ Blues People 2mins 47secs
As part of NBPC's 2007 New Media Institute, producers around the nation convened in Jackson Mississippi to document the blues through new media.
Made In Lesotho 5mins 36secs
Jennifer Chen runs a socially conscious production factory in Lesotho that ships to global businesses like Footlocker and The Gap.
Daallo Airlines 6mins 41secs
Not withstanding a collapsed government, Somalian businessman Mohammed Yassin Olad maintains a successful, and critical, airline business.
Ruff N' Tumble In Nigeria 9mins 33secs
Decade-long CNN journalist Carol Pineau profiles a successful entrepreneur in Lagos, Nigeria.
Breaking Silences 10mins
A discussion of the alarming rate of domestic violence against women of color on college campuses.