BLACK PUBLIC MEDIA ANNOUNCES CALL FOR APPLICATIONS FOR THE JACQUIE JONES MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP FUND

The $300,000 fund honoring award-winning director and film executive will support emerging and diverse content creators  NEW YORK (August 13, 2018)—Black Public Media (BPM) today announced a call for applications for the Jacquie Jones Memorial Scholarship Fund (JJMSF). Established with funding provided by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB), the $300,000 scholarship fund is inspired …

Adventures at BLERDCON DC

by Troy-Jeffrey Allen How does BPM’s mission relate to something like blerd culture? It starts with freedom of expression … Before the millennium, the life of a sci-fi/fantasy fan was fairly lonely.  Remember, this was pre-Internet, so geekery was largely a solitary activity – just you and your novel/comic book/manga/film – indulged to support an …