BERLIN (Hollywood Reporter) – Director Mika Kaurismaki stitches together archive footage and fresh interviews to pay overdue cinematic homage to legendary South African singer Miriam Makeba in the documentary “Mama Africa”
via Reuters
Category Archives: Media
Documentary: Nas & Damien Marley: Distant Relatives
Check out this three part “Distant Relatives,” documentary surrounding Nas and Damian Marley. Part one titled “Hope Road,” surrounds the duo visiting the Bob Marley Museum on Hope Road. Part two “Dub Plates,” gives us an inside look at their recording session at Tuff Gong Studios. Last but not least Part 3, “whats bringing Nas to Trenchtown is all about!”Check it out Directed by B+.
Why Black America No Longer Exists
Yes Halle, Eugene Robinson and Wild Roots agrees…your baby is Black. Now Black America?? What’s UP??
Disintegration: The Splintering of Black America
In his new book, Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Eugene Robinson talks about the ‘Disintegration’ of the Black monolith…
has sparked debate with his recent book, Disintegration: The Splintering of Black America (Doubleday; $24.95), in which he posits that decades of desegregation, affirmative action, immigration and interracial marriage has shattered the concept of a black monolith into four distinct groups: the Mainstream middle class; the Abandoned underclass; the Transcendent elite; and two newly Emergent groups—black immigrants and individuals of mixed-race heritage. Robinson wrote: “There was a time when there were agreed upon ‘black leaders,’ when there was a clear ‘black agenda,’ when we can talk confidently about ‘the state of black America’–but not anymore.”
via Black Enterprise