On this edition of In Black America, producer/host John L. Hanson Jr. speaks with Ya'Ke Smith, associate dean of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion and an associate professor of film at the University of Texas at Austin.
What’s he been in again? McConaughey, who won the Oscar for his 2014 role as a real life AIDS patient in the 1980s in Dallas Buyers Club, is known for other movies such as The Lincoln Lawyer, How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days, The Wedding Planner and Sahara.
He’s still acting? The 51-year-old voices a character in the animated movie Sing 2 later this year and his most recent film was 2019 s The Gentlemen, directed by Guy Ritchie and co-starring Hugh Grant.
And he’s a professor? In 2019, Texan-born McConaughey officially became a “professor of practice” for the Department of Radio Television and Film at the Moody College of Communication in his alma mater, the University of Texas at Austin.
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Art history senior Mia Stanley on finding community with the Longhorn Band and deciphering ancient language mysteries during the pandemic. By: Diana Lee
Mia Stanley’s favorite UT memories are small moments: sitting on campus while birds chirp in the background; admiring the grass and trees, a welcome change of scenery from the desert of Odessa, her hometown in West Texas; and meeting people she wouldn’t have met otherwise.
Stanley says of her best friend, whom she met through Longhorn Band: “She’s from North Carolina. … I think of the weird off chance that she chose to play the saxophone in the sixth grade and the weird off chance that I chose to play the trombone in seventh grade and the circuitous routes that it took for us to meet.”