Click the pic to hear our recent interview on NPR’s Maryland Morning – we talk about film, family, and the future! (ok, not so much the future. but because of the rules of alliteration, we had to say that.) This interview was taped before a Live! Studio! Audience! immediately prior to a screening of a [...]

Kenyan filmmaker Wanuri Kahiu takes the Afrofuturism genre one step further with her short SciFi film “Pumzi.” The dystopic flick is set in an enclosed, underground future society, “35 years after water wars have torn the world apart,” and chronicles the efforts of one young woman to bring life back to the surface of the [...]

Duke professor Mark Anthony Neal and Grammy winning producer 9th Wonder (pictured left) are using SunMoonChild – amazing song by imani uzuri, amazing video by Pierre Bennu – as part of the midterm exam for their course, ‘sampling soul.’ The course is about black cultural production and the tradition of borrowing/remixing/sampling and how it all [...]

In New York? Check out Jean Grae & Tamar-Kali this saturday!! Click the flyer to see a promo.

There is an unspoken question in the mind of all parents who hesitate to encourage their children to be artists: how do you live off of art, anyway? One answer is creation of sellable product; another is alliance with top-notch academic and scholarly institutions; a third is grants grants and more grants. Being brilliant doesn’t [...]