AUGUST 30, 2022 BLACK PUBLIC MEDIA WEEKLY DISPATCH By Denise Greene AfroPoP Turns 15 Next Year! And BPM’s 2022 Open Call Begins Sept. 1 AfroPop: The Ultimate Cultural Experience is public television’s longest-running series exclusively devoted to showcasing content about the Black experience across the African diaspora. Launched in 2008, the award-winning series almost …
BLACK PUBLIC MEDIA WEEKLY DISPATCH By Lisa Osborne BPM Launches New Residency with the Johnny Carson Center for Emerging Media Arts The rental car was 101 degrees, and the crickets were on full blast in the field beside my hotel. I had flown from Atlanta to Nebraska to launch the Black Public Media Residency …
AUGUST 16, 2022 BLACK PUBLIC MEDIA WEEKLY DISPATCH By Leslie Fields-Cruz Biyi Bandele/photo from Instagram Otu Njama/photo from Facebook BPM Mourns the Loss of Two Nollywood Filmmakers Black Public Media joins our colleagues across the African diaspora in mourning the loss of two prominent Nollywood filmmakers last week. The sudden death of Biyi Bandele …
AUGUST 9, 2022 BLACK PUBLIC MEDIA WEEKLY DISPATCH By Cheryl D. Fields The Library of Congress Wants Our Help A couple of weeks ago, I visited the Library of Congress. I hadn’t been there since before former President Obama appointed Carla Diane Hayden Librarian of Congress in 2016. The library was as stunning as …
August 2, 2022 BLACK PUBLIC MEDIA WEEKLY DISPATCH By Leslie Fields-Cruz Blueberry Photo by Cheryl D. Fields Sweet Summer! The BPM Family is Hot, Hot, Hot! I spent the last weekend in July at a family reunion in Washington, D.C. Watching four generations of my relatives interact with each other — smiling, laughing and celebrating our …