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The Toronto-made film RISE embodies the creative force of a local youth-led spoken word movement known as RISE Edutainment. A subway station serves...
- Added: Feb 04, 2020
- Length: 17:12
In November 2019, Houston-based artist Trenton Doyle Hancock brings his mythological “Moundverse” to Miami. Locust Projects gives over the entire s...
- Added: Nov 12, 2019
- Length: 18:03
The BLCK Family, a Miami-based creative collective, fosters opportunities for individual artists to share their original music and poetry in intima...
- Added: Aug 13, 2018
- Length: 11:51
Tameka Norris talks about her first feature-length film—she plays a version of herself in Meka Jean: How She Got Good. The film debuted during Pros...
- Added: Mar 19, 2015
- Length: 12:07
Some people drop everything to pursue a dream. Painter Joel Washington, however, keeps his day job to fuel his passion.
- Added: Jun 12, 2014
- Length: 05:34
In his Brooklyn home, activist artist Danny Simmons talks to Cathy Byrd about the essential elements of his creative practice—writing, painting, co...
- Added: Jan 04, 2013
- Length: 16:51
For more than 40 years, Bobby Hutcherson has lived a life most artists can only dream about. After making his name in the 1960s in New York as one ...
- Added: Mar 02, 2012
- Length: 09:57
Step dancing has become popular among black Greek organizations and is part of a tradition that goes back to African tribal rituals. It also is a w...
- Added: Nov 07, 2011
- Length: 29:00
NEA Jazz Master Ron Carter, bassist/cellist/educator extraordinaire, talks about his career playing jazz and classical music.
- Added: Aug 05, 2011
- Length: 25:22
- Purchases: 2
From The Jackson Five to Labelle. From Quincy Jones to The Soulful Strings. From Jr. Walker & The All-stars to Etta James.
This should tell you wh...
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- Added: Jan 21, 2010
- Length: 59:32
- Purchases: 7
