It’s easy to see how overwhelmingly white Hollywood’s TV writers’ rooms are. In 2017, a Color of Change report found that only 4.8% of 3,817 writers on 234 TV shows were Black. Two-thirds of those shows had no Black writers at all. In 2020, “Watchmen” writer Cord Jefferson told The Washington Post that […]
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‘Insecure’ Writer Mike Guayo Is On A Mission To Bring More Black Voices To TV
It’s easy to see how overwhelmingly white Hollywood’s TV writers’ rooms are. In 2017, a Color of Change report found that only 4.8% of 3,817 writers on 234 TV shows were Black. Two-thirds of those shows had no Black writers at all. In 2020, “Watchmen” writer Cord Jefferson told The Washington Post that […]
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Travel the Sweetest Route through Vayots Dzor and Syunik, Armenia | Smithsonian Voices | Smithsonian Center For Folklife & Cultural Heritage
Smithsonian Voices Smithsonian Center For Folklife & Cultural Heritage Travel the Sweetest Route through Vayots Dzor and Syunik, Armenia March 11th, 2021, 6:00AM / BY My Armenia Program Master basket weaver Arthur Petrosyan sits and works on a project. (Photo by Narek Harutyunyan, My Armenia Program) In the summer of […]
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Young Voices Speak Through Film At 11th Annual BHERC Youth Diversity Film Festival Online on BHERC TV – Los Angeles Sentinel | Los Angeles Sentinel
Young Voices Speak Through Film At 11th Annual BHERC Youth Diversity Film Festival Online on BHERC TV Festival group photo with Host actress Olivia Tillman “This is US”, BHERC Founder Sandra Evers-Manly, Director Billie Green, Brotherhood Crusade Cherisse Bremomd Weaver and student filmmakers(Photo credit: Cazzie Burns) The Black Hollywood Education […]
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Amplifying Underrepresented Voices in Fashion Education | Education, Sponsored Feature
SAVANNAH, United States — Founded in 1978 and offering degree programmes previously unavailable in United States, Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD) now enrols over 15,000 students from across the globe, offering degrees in over 40 majors and minors in more than 75 disciplines. SCAD students are able to […]
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Battle Creek music studio amplifies voices as multimedia hub
Battle Creek — The exterior has signage for the Kendall Electric Inc., a couple of campaign yard signs and a black mailbox reading “131 Studios.” Co-owners Trenel Tatum and Derrick Freeman are photographed at 131 Collective Studios on Monday, Oct. 12, 2020 in Battle Creek, Mich. Travon Tatum, with older […]
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Online Exhibit At Harvard’s Peabody Museum Elevates Wampanoag Voices
It’s been four centuries since Europeans first arrived on the shores of southeastern Massachusetts, but the people they met have called the region home for 12,000 years. And while for many, the arrival of the Pilgrims to the “New World” is something to remember in celebration, for others, it’s another […]