Monthly Archives: July 2011

Cosby Program Seeking Black Screen Writers | News One

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The Cosby Program, established by Drs. Bill and Camille Cosby, is seeking talented African-American screen writers for a 15-week program that begins early 2012.

The program is not designed for beginning-level writers, though a degree in cinematic writing or filmmaking is not required. Applicants are required to have taken a few workshops or classes in the past.

Applications can be submitted until September 15th 2011.

An application includes a statement expressing interest in the program; a completed script for a feature film, sitcom or one hour drama; a treatment or outline for a new unscripted feature or television script for a show that is currently on air, a resume and a description of coursework taken in studying writing.

Read more about the program at CosbyProgram.com

Cosby Program Seeking Black Screen Writers | News One.

Geronimo Pratt Remembered in Los Angeles

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“Lives of great men all remind us; we can make our lives sublime,
and, departing, leave behind us, footprints on the sands of time.”
– Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Family, friends and comrades gathered today at the Agape International Spiritual Center to celebrate the life and legacy Black Panther leader Geronimo Ji Jaga Pratt. Speakers included Pratt’s attorneys Stuart Hanlon, Shawn C. Holly and Kathleen Cleaver. Other scheduled speakers were U.S. Rep. Maxine Waters, Mrs. Mollie Bell, nephew Patrick Pratt and former Panthers Wayne Pharr, Roland Freeman and Mubarakart. He was eulogized by Rev. Michael Bernard Beckwith with music by Rickie Byars Beckwith and the Agape International Choir.

Many speakers reminded us we best honor him by honoring that part of ourselves that also seeks Freedom and knows that to that end, there is still much work to be done.

Pratt, the target of the notorious FBI COINTELPRO program, served 27 years behind bars for a murder he did not commit. His conviction was overturned in 1997. He won a $4.5 million judgment against the City of Los Angeles and the FBI after his release. He had been splitting his time between his childhood home in Morgan City, Louisiana and a community founded by former Panther Pete O’Neal outside Arusha, Tanzania in East Africa. He died there in June of malaria.

DemocracyNow: Horn of Africa Famine – Millions at Risk in “Deadly Cocktail” of War, Climate Change, Neoliberalism

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KIKI GBEHO: As I said, I think it is a deadly cocktail. It’s an ongoing conflict. We have challenges with access, so we don’t have, as you would see in other aid operations, large numbers of international agencies working on the ground. And then the global crisis, we see price hikes all over the world. The whole Horn is affected by the drought. And you end up where we are now.

I think that the good news in all of this is that we still do have the possibility to save lives. When we talk to the technical people on the ground who assess for us, they tell us, if we act now, if we take advantage of the upcoming raining seasons and plant, if we manage to get food into the country, if we manage to put cash in the hands of people, and if we manage to scale up our health interventions, we could prevent the situation from deteriorating further. At the moment, only two regions have been declared as being in drought, but if we don’t do something, we can see the remainder of the regions in the south quickly roll into the same situation.

Watch video at DemocracyNow.org.