Let’s take a look by Lisa Osborne We are excited to announce that we have added a fourth residency to our BPMplus Initiative. The new program is a collaboration with the Johnny Carson Center at University of Nebraska-Lincoln. We also are accepting applications for the third cohort of the MIT…

by Leslie Fields-Cruz Growing up in New York City and Los Angeles — in a family of migrants from Ohio and South Carolina — my family never celebrated Juneteenth. Honestly, I don’t think I’d even heard of the holiday until I was in college. That won’t be the case for…

by Leslie Fields-Cruz Last fall, American University’s Center for Media and Social Impact published a report titled, The State of Journalism on the Documentary Filmmaking Scene. …

Features and shorts about the global Black experience are invited by Leslie Fields-Cruz My co-workers and I are gearing up for the next season of Black Public Media’s award-winning series, AfroPoP: The Ultimate Cultural Exchange. To celebrate our 15th season, we’re revamping the application for our annual call for completed…

by Leslie Fields-Cruz Imagine a society where unarmed people of color aren’t getting gunned down regularly by hate-filled White men wielding automatic weapons. A society where the halls of justice aren’t so tilted in favor of incarcerating what too often feels like “just us.” One where misguided teenagers get the…

by Leslie Fields-Cruz I struggle to understand why anyone is truly shocked that Roe v Wade is on the verge of being overturned. For my entire adult life, anti-abortion advocates, politicians and voters have done everything they could to weaken and thwart the ruling. For them, the 2020 death of…

by Leslie Fields-Cruz PitchBLACK 2022 kicked off last night (April 25) with the first of several screenings scheduled for this week’s PitchBLACK Orlando Bagwell Online Film Retrospective. The streaming event, co-presented by BPM and GBH, launched with The Terrible Transformation — one of Orlando’s contributions to the highly acclaimed PBS…

April 25-May 1, 2022 By Leslie Fields-Cruz I am pleased to announce that in coordination with our PitchBLACK Forum and Awards program next week, Black Public Media has arranged for a week-long film retrospective in celebration of our 2022 Trailblazer Orlando Bagwell. The exclusive online event offers a limited series…