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The Award Academy-winning filmmakers talk centered around Black representation within the film industry and career advice for media students, among others.

Sometimes uncomfortable in discussing. >> i want a strong black name. we have given our kids white names. >> the father feels like his family is losing touch with their roots. >> i want at least one of my kids to be black so i can love it. >> the cosby show was more safe, this family is unapologetic about their blackness in ways we have not seen on television before. >> next saturday when you turn 13 you are becoming a man, a black man because i am throwing you a african rights of passage ceremo...

From the moment his elementary school announced a talent show, Kevin Aviance - born Eric...

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Kid that ive come across. hes a 16 year old musician. he is not known for his physical prowess. the truth is when mr lester looked out and saw a black child he decided like this common in america that his his skin alone was a weapon. that blackness was the threat and thats thats the reason were having racial conversation. racial violence conversations thats the reason that were treating this case as a case of racial violence. um do you have a satisfactory answer of why it took so long to arrest?...

Born in black men in this country and his father before him was born a black man in this country and whether youre talking about when he was born or when i was born or that young man today we still have blackness, rendering you as a member of a suspect class. that is why he found himself with bullet fragments on his brain. it is why we had to mere eliza rice, who was shot in broad daylight, holding a toy gun in a public park in an open carry state shot within less than if you seconds because the...

Character is truly a miracle, and he has a prognosis of a full recovery, minus scarring and the long term, maybe cte and post traumatic brain injury symptoms he is his prognosis is very, very positive is a miracle it is . its astonishing how quickly he was able to be released from the hospital. so as you know, the suspect said that he shot ralph because he was quote scared to death because ralph was so big. we were showing pictures there of ralf. we see him with his clarinet. he looks in the sti...

Colman Domingo believes in paying it forward, literally, so he joined the producer team of...

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