I’m honored to announce that on July 1 at 7pm (EST) I’ll be having a live conversation with acclaimed filmmaker Terence Nance, creator of the wildly creative movie “An Oversimplification of Her Beauty” and the HBO show “Random Acts of Flyness.” For those in Japan, the event will be on July 2 at 8am. Join us on ZoomZOOM LINK: https://bit.ly/3dIx0XzMeeting ID: 872 2968 0994Password: flyness For other details, please check The Museum of Contemporary African Diasporian Arts at http://mocadadigital.org. Below, …
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On The Grind is a short documentary about kids of color growing up in Long Beach, California who escape their harsh realities through skateboarding. The film was predominantly shot at 14th Street Skate Park, also known as Ghetto Park, a run down facility that local Long Beach skaters treated as a sanctuary. The film explores their lives in the aftermath of losing their close friend, Michael K Green; a talented skateboarder who was in transition to becoming a professional skateboarder. …
Recently I wrote an article about East Africa’s rising electronic music scene for bandcamp. Read it here. As a 90’s kid, when Nas said, “Hip-Hop is dead” it seemed like something that needed to be said, albeit shortsighted. Responding to Nas’s 2006 proclamation, Palestinian kids were saying “Hip-Hop is not dead it lives in Gaza.” In Kenya, the disputed 2007 presidential election made the country explode into mayhem. 1,100 people were killed in two months. Most of them were hacked …
Last month, Tokyo Weekender ran my interview with Born With It film director, Emmanuel Osei-Kuffour. Since then the movie has been airing on PBS. The feature is also currently streaming online. Watch it below. Read my interview with director Emmanuel Osei-Kuffour, here. …
Writing about Black Panther and googling it while trying to avoid spoilers is like boxing yourself. But learning about Wakanda’s king still got me hyped. A lot of themes came out of writing this Black Panther post for Tokyo Weekender. The movie is a treasure trove of symbolism and possibility. Here, the cultural and social impact of this film is epic. For kids like my four-year-old daughter and parents like me who worry about their child’s mental health and safety, …
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