I left New York City early Saturday morning on a JetBlue flight bound for Los Angeles. Where am I headed? To the Pan African Film Festival (PAFF). This year is PAFF’s twentieth anniversary. It’s one of the largest American film festivals showcasing narratives, documentaries and short films of the Pan African experience. It’s one of the many places I come to in order to find films for AfroPoP, connect with west coast black filmmakers. After my plane touched down mid ...

Sh*t White Girls Say to Black Girls is one of the latest videos to take the Internet by storm, having been viewed by over 4 million in less than a week. The creator, Franchesca Ramsey, a young, dark skin, Black woman with locs throws on a blond wig and goes IN, reenacting remarks made by “white girls”. At first I was bewildered by the sensation of this video. This isn’t news. Is it? My friends of color and I were used to ...

You may recognize funnyman Wyatt Cenac from his stints as a correspondent for the Daily Show. You can also see him soon as the host of our new upcoming AfroPoP season, season 4! Recently NBPC held the AfroPoP production shoot in a Williamsburg studio, and we brought some flavor into the industrial neighborhood. Check out the behind the scenes video below with Mr. Cenac (find out why he loves public television so much - hint, its something about Sesame Street). We have interviews ...

My mother always said, “You are different, you don't play by the same rules.” These are words I live by, especially since I work in corporate America. Last week I had my semi-annual review. Things were going really well until my boss went over his hand written notes about my "Opportunities for Improvement." His list included arriving to meetings early and not just on time, and to stop bringing reading materials to meetings (regardless if ...

Years ago in college, I was cast in a school play. I had one line, “You muthafucka!” It was the quintessential, Black girl neck rolling and Sam Jackson-esq, urban tone in which I delivered the line each night that made the audience guffaw on cue. Even though I am a Black girl, I don't think the audience realized that I was playing a character. It wasn’t until the following year, when I took a sociolinguistics class that I began to understand that my ...