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Hundreds of applications to various roles later, I'm yet to receive any feedback on any of my interview techniques, my CV's strength or any of my abilities. I'm not unemployable and I doubt the millions of other unemployed people are.
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We first told you about this thriller back in September of 2011, when it was in pre-production. At that time, Isaiah Washington and Michael K. Williams were set to star in the Stuart Connelly project; but most likely, due to conflicting/busy schedules opted out. The Suspect, now in post-production, stars Mekhi Pfifer and Sterling K. Brown. According to the film's synopsis, Pfifer and Brown will play two African American social scientists who "pose as bank robbers in an effort to understand the racial dynamics of small-town law enforcement. However, their experiment takes an unplanned, deadly turn." The thriller, produced by Connelly, Mary Jo Bartmaier, Robyn K....
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On Tuesday afternoon, the nation experienced its 49th school shooting since the Columbine massacre in 1999, when an altercation between two individuals set off at least five gunshots at Lone Star College in north Houston, Texas, injuring both parties and a nearby janitor caught in the crossfire. The college and the surrounding schools went into [...]
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With Sundance 2013 upon us, we genuinely celebrate filmmakers of color whose works have made it onto this year's slate. We, at the American Black Film Festival (ABFF), cannot help but indulge in our own film version of "fantasy football." Each of us names our favorite Black director of the moment, whether established (Spike Lee, John Singleton, Lee Daniels, Antoine Fuqua, Tim Story, Kasi Lemmons, Gina Prince-Bythewood) or emerging (Ryan Coogler, Ava DuVernay, Shaka King, Dee Rees, Rashaad Ernesto Green), and enthusiastically argues the case for why our auteur pick will have their movie's official world premiere at one of the nation's quality Black film...
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Wealthy buyers are snapping up plots of land in Vidigal after authorities pushed out drug gangs
From high on the steep slopes of Vidigal, the panorama across Atlantic beaches and distant islands is among the most spectacular in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. But tourists are unlikely to find it listed in most guidebooks.
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Chelsea are having a funny old season. They have actually scored more points away from home than at home.
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A vast expanse of ocean. A small boat, bobbing with uncertainty amongst looming waves. It's an image that's been created many times in many iterations across the cinema landscape - in Alfred Hitchcock's Lifeboat, in The Perfect Storm, more recently in Ang Lee's opus Life of Pi. And now, also, in Senegalese director Moussa Touré's latest film, La Pirogue. One of the two gala screenings at the 20th edition of the African Diaspora International Film Festival (ADIFF), its US premiere last fall, La Pirogue is Touré's third film in twenty years and, much like his sophomore effort TGV (1998), it is a film about survival, a distinct sort of...
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Why the United States can't just drone Algeria.
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Full Time Royal Bafokeng Stadium, Rustenburg. Côte d'Ivoire 2 v 1 Togo. Don't believe the hype about Gervinho's late winner. It was the much maligned Boubacar Barry who won this for Les Éléphants saving two certain goals in the opening and closing seconds of this intriguing match. In between Yaya Touré did his thing and [...]
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It is a positive that major cable networks are bothering to relay the results of the African Cup of Nations, though it is a shame their offerings remain annoyingly Eurocentric. After Alain Traoré equalized for Burkina Faso yesterday, CNN gleefully reminded the viewers at home that Traoré played his club football for Lorient in France! [...]
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Mali and Algeria have largely driven Nigeria out of the headlines over the past several days, except with respect to...
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