If you believe people have no history worth mentioning, it\'s easy to believe they have no humanity worth defending.
---William Loren Katz
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UNITY Receives Ford Foundation Grant to Advance Entrepreneurship Among Journalists of Color
Posted by Sultana | August 17, 2010 06:26 PM
UNITY Journalists of Color, Inc., has received a $100,000 grant from The Ford Foundation to implement a New U: News Entrepreneurs Working through UNITY (New U) project. The New U project will support the creative ideas of participating journalists of color through a series of two-day "boot camps" at each of the four summer 2010 UNITY alliance partners' conventions
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Study: VCs give more money to women, Asians
Posted by Sultana | August 10, 2010 11:02 AM
Asians, women and people with less than a college degree fare better than white men who hold advanced degrees, according to CB Insights report; youth also a factor in funding decisions.
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Nelson George’s ‘Left Unsaid’ Online Series Premieres
Posted by Sultana | June 29, 2010 12:30 PM
Nelson George has had an amazing career as a journalist, a screenwriter and producer and now he’s an online content provider with a Web series based on something familiar to most of us, Facebook. Left Unsaid premieres today after being well-received at the American Black Film Festival in Miami last week. Http://www.Leftunsaidseries.com
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Hollywood's White Summer: Where's the Diversity?
Posted by Sultana | June 08, 2010 07:39 PM
The forecast is for a white summer -- at least at the movies. With the notable exception of "Karate Kid," headlined by Jaden Smith and Jackie Chan, most of the big-budget films hitting over the next few months star Caucasian actors.
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Black, Hispanic Congressmen Question Comcast/NBCU Diversity
Posted by Sultana | May 08, 2010 09:02 AM
Forty-six congressmen -- many from the Congressional Black Caucus and from the Congressional Hispanic Caucus – Thursday night called on the Federal Communications Commission to hold off approving Comcast’s deal for NBC Universal until a series of public hearings can be scheduled.
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Burma Video Journalists: Courageous Reporting From A Closed Country
Posted by Sultana | April 17, 2010 04:33 AM
"The situation in Burma now is pretty much the same as in 2007," says Aye Chan Naing. Aye Chan is the Executive Director of the Democratic Voices of Burma (DVB), a collective of anonymous underground video journalists (VJs) who record events at great risk inside that troubled and largely closed country, smuggle the footage out and then broadcast it worldwide via satellite.
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Media Consumption and Children
Posted by Sultana | April 12, 2010 08:26 AM
The Kaiser Family Foundation has a new study which reports that kids between the ages of 8-18 consume massive quantities of digital media and barely any print at all. They are packing 10 hours 45 minutes in each day. That's a two-hour increase over five years ago.
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Microsoft, Hachette launch Web site for women
Posted by Sultana | April 07, 2010 03:56 AM
Microsoft, magazine publisher Hachette Filipacchi US and the Hollywood production company BermanBraun have teamed up to launch Glo, a lifestyle site aimed at upscale women 25 to 49 years old.
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Cesar Chavez Biopic in the Works
Posted by Sultana | March 20, 2010 07:13 AM
The story of civil-rights activist and labor organizer Cesar Chavez is headed for the big screen.
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Google vs. China: Claws Come Out, Search Giant Sounds Like Sovereign Nation
Posted by Sultana | March 12, 2010 06:57 AM
The spat between Google and the Chinese government has been rumbling along for weeks, but just now it's been elevated to "fist fight" status: The inevitable strongly-worded Chinese warning about "consequences" has arrived.
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Maria Full Of Grace
Catalina Sandrino Moreno was nominated for an Academy Award for her portrayal of a Colombian teenager who, for a large paycheck, agrees to be a mule for drug-runners: she has to swallow dozens of thumb-sized capsules of heroin and smuggle them into New York. Her empathetic face carries us along on Maria's journey, and humanizes a problem that is too easily relegated to a headline. Don't miss the supporting role played by DV Republic's own Monique Curnen!
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Tania Cuevas Martinez is an award winning filmmaker known for her socio-political documentaries and innovative filmmaking approach. Tania's most recent work was aired on BET, UPN, and MTV Brazil.
In addition to her creative work as a filmmaker, Tania co-founded the H20 International Film Festival in 2002 for filmmakers with Hip Hop works. She also launched 11th Parallel Worldwide, a media and marketing company focused on marketing artists, filmmakers and entertainment-based brands in the international marketplace. Currently Tania is working as a segment producer for CURRENT TV. |
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