Tag: director
Fairfield’s Ayanna Shon Generates Buzz About Her Much Talked About Holiday...
By Nicole S. Daniel
The Birmingham Times
Add Ayanna Shon’s new film Christmas Hypnosis, now on Tubi, a free streaming app owned by Fox Corporation, to...
Area Single Mom Shares Story, Roundtable With Dept. of Labor Official
By Ryan Michaels
The Birmingham Times
Kimber Washington is a single mother of four, who works two jobs and lives in a home she owns in...
Meet the Alabama Native Tapped as Stage Designer for TWG 2022
By Barnett Wright
The Birmingham Times
Lyndell T. McDonald is ready for the World stage.
McDonald, a Montgomery, Ala. native and assistant professor and technical supervisor at...
First Black Woman, Shalanda Young, Confirmed to Lead WH Budget Office
By Justin Tasolides
www.ny1.com
Shalanda Young, who has been serving as acting director since March, was confirmed this week by the Senate in a widely bipartisan vote, making...
Alvin Briggs becomes Alabama’s First Black Director of the High School...
By Solomon Crenshaw Jr.
Alabama Newscenter
Alvin Briggs was 6 years old when he told his mother he wanted to play peewee football. She responded by...
Director John Singleton hospitalized with stroke
Associated Press
NEW YORK (AP) — “Boyz N the Hood” director John Singleton suffered a stroke last week and remains hospitalized, according to his family....
FBI director visits Birmingham to speak on law enforcement and race
Ariel Worthy
The Birmingham Times
On FBI Director James B. Comey’s desk sits a single piece of paper from October 1963.
The paper is a memo from...
Changing the face of public housing: executive director outlines agenda for...
By Joseph Bryant
Housing Authority of the Birmingham District
The new executive director for the Housing Authority of the Birmingham District is wasting no time in...
Whitesplaining: Matt Damon Attempts To Explain Diversity To Accomplished Black Filmmaker
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCHRaVXrB7E
Matt Damon’s politically incorrect standpoint on diversity has added to the ongoing conversation of racial inequality and White privilege in Hollywood.
HBO premiered the fourth...
NATIONAL BLACK PROGRAMMING CONSORTIUM RELEASES STATEMENT
New Executive Director Makes Push to Advance the Dialogue
on Race in America in Wake of Recent Attacks
NEW YORK (July 7, 2015)—Leslie Fields-Cruz, executive director...