By Cherranda Smith
Feb 9, 2021
Four Screens is a Black-owned management and production company on a mission to bring diversity to all facets of the entertainment industry.
CEO
Messiah Jacobs is an experienced Hollywood producer who wanted to go beyond getting more diversity on screens– he’s ensuring there’s more representation at the tables when deals are signed.
“It isn’t enough to make diverse content, we must change the way deals are financed, greenlit, constructed and how under-represented talent is managed,” Jacobs said in an interview with Blacknews.com. “Black talent in front of the screen is not always being managed and represented by entities with the same goals of inclusion and diversity in mind.”
Feb 9, 2021 / 10:46 PM EST
FISHERS, Ind. (WISH) More than 1,000 people have signed an online petition calling for Hamilton Southeastern Schools Superintendent Allen Bourff to step down.
They’re criticizing how he wants the Black Lives Matter Movement addressed in classrooms.
The petition created by parent Amber Welch calls for Bourff’s replacement to be, in her words, someone of higher character, preferably a person of color. Welch also said current events and history need to be taught from a more honest perspective.
An email Bourff sent to faculty surfaced on an a Hamilton Southeastern parent Facebook page. Welch said the part where Bourff called the Black Lives Matter Movement political bothered several parents.
Out of Chaos, An Artist s Journey in Haiti Nominated at the 2021 Toronto Independent Film Awards
The award-winning documentary will be available to stream February 19 - 21, 2021.
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In 2018,
Galerie Lakaye produced the 70-minute feature documentary,
Out of Chaos, An Artist s Journey in Haiti, which has been screened to great acclaim at 18 film festivals worldwide, garnering a Best Director Award at the Amsterdam World International Film Festival. Directed by
Pascal Giacomini, and written and produced by Haitian native
Carine Fabius, the powerfully evocative film finds an unexpected art explosion in a Haitian slum, where Black artists living in extreme poverty create extraordinary art under impossible circumstances. Their works now belong to prominent international museums and private collections.
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Color Of Change Launches The Pedestal Project Augmented Reality Experience To Power Racial Justice
Former United States Congressman John Lewis, co-founder of the Black Lives Matter movement Alicia Garza, and co-founder of Freedom March NYC Chelsea Miller Spotlighted on Empty Pedestals Where Confederate Statues Once Stood
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NEW YORK, Feb. 8, 2021 /PRNewswire/ Today, Color Of Change, the nation s largest online racial justice organization, launched
The Pedestal Project – an Augmented Reality (AR) experience on Instagram that lets users place statues of racial justice leaders atop empty pedestals where confederate statues once stood as a refreshing new symbol of equality and progress.