By Olufunmilayo Gittens As African-Americans, we watch more hours of television per week than any other group. But have you ever wondered who the black folks are that script the shows we love? Despite the less than stellar representation of blacks at pitch tables and in writers rooms, there are a number of important African-American […]
In the aftermath of September 11th Kola Boof raised more than eyebrows with the assertion that she and Osama Bin Laden were once lovers. Like the opinions the Sudanese native shares as an outspoken writer and poet, the affair remains controversial and questionable in many circles. In the following essay Boof revisits her days with […]
Screenwriting is the backbone of Hollywood. Writers create the foundation from which films and television shows build upon. Becoming a screenwriter, however, is not an easy endeavor. One’s chances for getting a staff writing position on a television show or being tapped by a studio to pen a film relates just as much to skill […]
(News One) — When Ishmael Reed, professor emeritus at California State University-Berkeley, went shopping his book Barack Obama and the Jim Crow Media: The Return of the N-Word Breakers to the American publishing establishment, he came away with one nagging question: Are Black writers with a strong left of center political bent an endangered species […]
These writers have enjoyed "bestseller" status and widespread popularity in the past five years.
(Washington Post) — Representation of African Americans by white people in texts records a history of “inferiority.” Based on these perceptions, African Americans have endured slavery, genocide, medical apartheid and segregation. This “inferiority” is a tool fundamental to ethnic distancing in society. Today, this tool is used with great precision in the mainstream publishing industry. While, […]