Client News: PBS Explores Slavery By Another Name

So proud to be working on the educational material (through my partnership 2MPower Media) for this forthcoming documentary that is being produced by twin cities public television and that will air on PBS.

Slavery by Another Name, a new 90-minute documentary based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning book by Wall Street Journal senior writer Douglas A. Blackmon, explores the little-known story of the post-Emancipation era and the labor practices and laws that effectively created a new form of slavery in the South that persisted well into the 20th century. The film, produced by tpt National Productions, was officially announced at the PBS Annual Meeting in Orlando, Florida on May 19th and is slated to air in early 2012 on PBS stations nationwide.

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Project News: inReads Launches!

“By broadening the conversation about reading, we are truly encouraging a reading culture,” says Felicia Pride, executive editor of inReads. “We have to be more inviting when it comes to books and the way we read, and get more people involved in the conversation—including those who’d rather experience an enhanced e-book on their iPad. The inReads staff, contributors, and advisory board will help the conversation along but the community members will really steer it.”

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Project News: Teens Learn More than Holding a Camera

Grateful to Kevin Moreno for this dope article about The Walbrook Project!

Arts, community, violence, conflict resolution, history, memory: these were some of the topics explored in three short films by 10 young artists whose work was screened yesterday afternoon at the Walbrook Branch of the Enoch Pratt Free Library.

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I'm a Hip-Hop & Education Fellow at NYU!

I'm proud to be a fellow in the 2010-2011 inaugural H2Ed Fellows cohort, a program of the Hip-Hop Education Center at NYU's Metropolitan Center for Urban Education.

During my fellowship, I'm exploring ways to use multimedia and digital texts that are hip-hop based or rely on hip-hop aesthetics to engage youth in various literacies--reading, writing, critical thinking, media and digital literacy.

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Video: Walbrook Teens Talk Education

In addition to producing their own short films, teens in The Walbrook Project also found themselves in front of the camera discussing pressing issues facing Baltimore--including work, education, crime/safety, and politics.

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