Maweni's New Superhero

Our second episode of AfroPoP: The Ultimate Cultural Exchange Season 16 is Supa Modo. It tells the story of Jo, a witty 9-year old terminally ill girl who dreams of being a Superhero, which prove to be something her rebellious teenage sister Mwix, overprotective mother Kathryn and the entire village of Maweni think they can fulfill.

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AfroPoP XV Title Can You Bring It is a Peabody Winner!

This Peabody winning film starts the fifteenth season of AfroPoP: The Ultimate Cultural Exchange, which traces the history and legacy of the 1989 ballet "D-Man In The Waters" and the impact AIDS had on Bill T. Jones and his colleagues.

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For The Moon

This AfroPoP Digital Short set in 1959 follows a 9-year-old precocious African-American who enters an all-white library, in a deeply segregated South Carolina, and refuses to leave without his books.

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Maweni's New Superhero

AfroPoP XV Title Can You Bring It is a Peabody Winner!

For The Moon

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