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ON THE GO NMA to FG: Boost local vaccine production to reduce dependence on foreigners The Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) has urged the federal government to improve in its efforts to boost local vaccine production in order to reduce Nigeria’s dependence on other countries.Advertisement The... Lagos places 14 countries on COVID watchlist The Lagos government has placed 14 countries on its COVID-19 watchlist as a measure to prevent a third wave of infections in the state....

Bob Marley Forty years have gone by since the late Honorable Robert Nesta Marley’s transition on May 11, 1981. And, three years ago on May 11, 2018, the number of years since Marley’s passing – 37 to be exact – uniquely surpassed the number of years that the he had been alive. Fast forward four decades later to 2021, Marley is found to be effortlessly retaining his position among the ranks of the world’s greatest and most influential musicians. The King of Jamaica’s Reggae music gen...

BBC starts Uprising with Steve McQueen UK pubcaster BBC1 has ordered a factual series examining three significant events involving black British people in 1981, with Small Axe and 12 Years a Slave filmmaker Steve McQueen directing. Steve McQueen (photo: Melony McGant) Uprising (3×60’) series examines the New Cross Fire in January 1981, which killed 13 black teenagers; the Black People’s Day of Action in March, when more than 20,000 people joined the first organised mass protest by black B...

Steve McQueen announces Small Axe follow-up with three-part Uprising Small Axe series, Sir Steve McQueen has announced that a new 3-part drama series titled Uprising will air on BBC One later this year. The BBC announced that the “vivid and visceral” trilogy will cover the New Cross House Fire of 1981, as well as the resulting Black People’s Day of Action, followed by the Brixton Riots from that same year. Sir Steve told the broadcaster that the London house fire and subsequent fallout w...

These Are the 100 Best Films of All Time, According to Critics By Jacob Osborn, Stacker News AND Ellen Wulfhorst, Stacker News On 5/9/21 at 9:00 AM EDT For more than a century, there have been movies, and people paid to review them. The first film critic, W.G. Faulkner, began churning out weekly reviews in January 1912. Since then, movie criticism has retained countless core consistencies while evolving to keep pace with the medium itself. During this time, the two respec...

The Year That TV Saved Us As life outside our homes shut down, the small screen became our treasured path to safe escape Alan Sepinwall, provided by FacebookTwitterEmail Back in March, while my son and his friends were enjoying a chilly morning of socially distanced outdoor fun at a campground, all the dads lingered near the fire our kids had built. We spent a few minutes catching up on how we’d all been dealing with one year and counting of pandemic life. Then, the conversation turned to wh...

Degrassi: The Next Generation cast, creators reuniting at ATX By (0) Lauren Collins and Adamo Ruggiero will reunite with their "Degrassi: The Next Generation" castmates at ATX. File Photo by Ezio Petersen/UPI | License Photo May 6 (UPI) -- The ATX Television Festival and Tubi announced Thursday that the cast of Degrassi: The Next Generation will reunite at the fest for the shows 20th anniversary. The Degrassi event will open the festival on June 11. So far, co-creator and executive producer...

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Darnell Martin, the director of I Like It Like That (1994), the first Hollywood studio vehicle piloted by a Black woman, recently said this of the withering of the previous Black film heyday of Do the Right Thing (1989) and Daughters of the Dust (1991): “It’s like they set us up to fail.” If the 21st-century FOIA film has its way, being set up to fail by shadowy forces will become a productive artistic subject — perhaps the primary inspiration, in fact, for backward-glancing Black ci...

2021 Peabody Awards announces several Black nominees The Peabody nominees represent "the most compelling and empowering stories released in broadcasting and streaming media during 2020." Set to be held virtually in June, the 2021 Peabody Awards have announced 60 nominees for the upcoming ceremony that represent, “the most compelling and empowering stories released in broadcasting and streaming media during 2020.” This year’s Peabody nominees represent some of the most acclaimed stories w...