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Jacquie Jones, director, producer, 180 Days |
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DC Met Principal, Tanishia Williams Minor |
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Raven Q., DC Met Student |
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DC Met Student and Teacher |
Jacquie Jones joins us to speak about
180 Days: A Year inside an American High School,
airing nationally on PBS March 25-26, 2015. The film follows a high
five students at DC Met. Jones is the Executive Director of the National
Black Programming Consortium (NBPC) and the Executive Producer of DC
MET. Since taking over leadership of NBPC, Jacquie has established
herself as a leader in the evolving next-media landscape through
innovative partnerships and initiatives such as the Katrina Project, the
ground-breaking New Media Institute, the Public Media Corps and
blackpublicmedia.org. She was previously the Executive Vice President of
ROJA Productions in New York City, a producer of high impact media for
public television and museums. Jacquie is also a Peabody Award-winning
producer and director of documentary films. Her credits include
“Africans in America” and “Matters of Race” for PBS, “Behind Closed
Doors: Sex in the 20th Century” for Showtime, and “The World Before Us,”
for the History Channel. She has a BA in English from Howard University
and an MA from Stanford University’s documentary filmmaking program.
She has been a Revson Fellow at Columbia University and a
scholar-in-residence at American University in Washington, DC. She
currently serves as Vice Chair of the Integrated Media Association (iMA)
board and on the Community Advisory Board of WHUT Howard University
Television.
On the program website there is a place to share stories: http://180schooldays.org/community/
Clarence R. Cuthbertson, Ph.D., playwright, joins
us to talk about "Tituba" and "Nat," which are at Black Repretory Group
in Berkeley, CA, this Sunday, 8 p.m. The native New Yorker, is both an
accomplished playwright as well as a percussionist. He has written over
19 plays of which 16 have been produced professionally. With an MFA in
Dramatic Writing from N.Y.U., he has taught and directed theater
throughout the United States and in the Caribbean.
Music: Robert Glasper
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Raven and MLK Jr. Memorial
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Link to show:
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/wandas-picks/2013/03/20/wandas-picks-radio-show
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