We’re living in the most technologically advanced era in human history. It’s remarkable how little of that progress ever reaches people in crisis or poverty.
Christopher Nolan says Hollywood studios should take more risks with their blockbusters, because audiences are desperately “looking for something new.”
“The biggest risk of all is to play it safe. That’s what, consistently in mainstream movies, doesn’t work. The audience is looking for something new.” https://t.co/Uu66RA9HQe
The family of Tony Brown, the trailblazing black journalist died last week at 93. His "Tony Brown's Journal" was the longest running series in the history of PBS. He was the founding dean of Howard's communication school and later inaugural dean Hampton's journalism school.
In the tradition of the black press, he rejected the activist/journalist distinction. Just one example: In 1963, he helped coordinate a 500,000 person march in Detroit where it is believed Martin Luther King first gave a version of the I Have A Dream speech.
Paris Is Burning (1990) Directed by Jennie Livingston is documentary film that chronicles the "ball culture" of New York City and the African-American, Latino, gay, and transgender communities involved in it.