To help bridge the gap left by federal funding cuts to PBS, Multicultural Bridge will host a fundraising event on Saturday, Dec. 6, at the organization's Solidarity Meeting House to…
The Benjamin L. Hooks Institute for Social Change at the University of Memphis will host the premiere film screening of “Facing Down Storms: Memphis and the Making of Ida B.…
In honor of Black History Month and Marian Anderson’s 125th birthday, which is February 27, 1897, PBS series American Masters will be debuting a special about the life and times of the esteemed…
Writer/producer/director/novelist Rita Coburn’s acclaimed documentary Maya Angelou: And Still I Rise, co-directed with Bob Hercules, was released in 2016, but the film is ever timely in its importance and impact. In…
"Very tall, very grand -- no shoes." Maya Angelou — writer, poet, activist, yes. But first, she was Miss Calypso. Maya Angelou: And Still I Rise — the first feature documentary about the…
