JUNE 21, 2022 BLACK PUBLIC MEDIA WEEKLY DISPATCH By Lisa Osborne Which BPMplus Residency is Right for You? Let’s take a closer look We are excited to announce that we have added a fourth residency to our BPMplus Initiative. The new program is a collaboration with the Johnny Carson Center at University of Nebraska-Lincoln. …
BLACK PUBLIC MEDIA WEEKLY DISPATCH By Leslie Fields-Cruz Hazing, by Byron Hurt The Big Payback, by Ericka Alexander and Whitney Dow After Sherman, by Jon Sesrie-Goff Inner Wound Real, by Carrie Hawks Celebrate Juneteenth with Tribeca Festival Growing up in New York City and Los Angeles — in a family of migrants from Ohio …
June 7, 2022 BLACK PUBLIC MEDIA WEEKLY DISPATCH By Leslie Fields-Cruz What is the Future of Documentary Storytelling? Last fall, American University’s Center for Media and Social Impact published a report titled, The State of Journalism on the Documentary Filmmaking Scene. The first and perhaps most important question authors Patricia Aufderheide and Marissa Woods explore in their …
MAY 31, 2022 BLACK PUBLIC MEDIA WEEKLY DISPATCH By Leslie Fields-Cruz Tweet Black Public Media is supported in part by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, with further funding from the MacArthur Foundation, the New York State Council on the Arts, and Acton Family Giving. For more information about underwriting and contributions, please contact Alisa …
May 24, 2022 BLACK PUBLIC MEDIA WEEKLY DISPATCH By Leslie Fields-Cruz BPM Launches ‘AfroPoP’ Rolling Call Features and shorts about the global Black experience are invited My co-workers and I are gearing up for the next season of Black Public Media’s award-winning series, AfroPoP: The Ultimate Cultural Exchange. To celebrate our 15th season, we’re …
May 17, 2022 BLACK PUBLIC MEDIA WEEKLY DISPATCH By Leslie Fields-Cruz Photo by Brett Sayles, at Pexels We Must Do Better Imagine a society where unarmed people of color aren’t getting gunned down regularly by hate-filled White men wielding automatic weapons. A society where the halls of justice aren’t so tilted in favor of …
MAY 10, 2022 BLACK PUBLIC MEDIA WEEKLY DISPATCH By Leslie Fields-Cruz Raising Black Voices on Women’s Health I struggle to understand why anyone is truly shocked that Roe v Wade is on the verge of being overturned. For my entire adult life, anti-abortion advocates, politicians and voters have done everything they could to weaken …
May 5, 2022 BLACK PUBLIC MEDIA WEEKLY DISPATCH By Leslie Fields-Cruz Congratulations PitchBLACK Winners! Pitch competitions are tough. It takes a lot of energy, focus and time to prepare a strong pitch, and an even greater amount of courage and commitment to stand before a panel of jurors and a group of nameless, faceless …
BLACK PUBLIC MEDIA WEEKLY DISPATCH By Leslie Fields-Cruz APRIL 26, 2022 Welcome to PitchBLACK Week! PitchBLACK 2022 kicked off last night (April 25) with the first of several screenings scheduled for this week’s PitchBLACK Orlando Bagwell Online Film Retrospective. The streaming event, co-presented by BPM and GBH, launched with The Terrible Transformation — one …
April 21, 2022 BLACK PUBLIC MEDIA WEEKLY DISPATCH EXTRA By Lisa Osborne International Slate of Black Storytellers Competing at PitchBLACK Forum: Immersive $75K in awards will be granted Creative technologists from Brazil, Canada, South Africa and the United States will compete for $75K in funding on Wednesday, April 27, at the 2022 PitchBLACK …