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Filmmaker Spotlight: Michaela Coel

Original story: https://www.castingnetworks.com/news/filmmaker-spotlight-michaela-coel/ For this installment of Filmmaker Spotlight, we’re featuring the showrunner, writer, co-director and star of HBO’s limited series, I May Destroy You, which recently received nine Emmy nominations. At just 33 years of age, Michaela Coel has seen much success as a creator, vulnerably and transparently pulling from her personal experience to craft impactful…

Empowering Black Voices Via Vocal, Written By Sierra Ginae

An Autistic Woman’s Battle with Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome

Once she became 25, Rosie Ashcraft felt more pain than ever before. An indie-pop singer who goes by the name Scarlit Rose was living her life making music and raising her two sons. Out of nowhere, she lost the stability in her spine and was desperate for answers. In her case, misdiagnosis nearly cost the…

Dear Covid

Dear Covid, How have you been? I know that it has been a few months and we got to know each other. I got to know your strengths. You are very easy to catch, many lives have been taken by you, and you cause so many symptoms of a cold or flu. The list keeps…

Enticing Moments

Three years ago, when I moved from NY to CA, I met the guys that make up Action Studios. Back then they were a rag tag group working out of their living room trying to build a company. Now, they still work out of their living room but they understand more of what they want…

Spider-Man: Miles Morales

“Wow, a mainstream super hero who looks like me.” That was my first thought when starting the video game “Spider-Man: Miles Morales”. Miles hails form the Bronx but in this story is coping with a move to Harlem after the death of his father. We find him still learning the way of the web from…

Not in Control

Do you find yourself, or have you ever found yourself, feeling incredibly disconnected and out of control with what’s going on around you that you think, “What am I even doing here?” 2020 has been many things, but forgiving isn’t one of them. With every new month/week/day/hour, something happens to shake up our sense of…

World of Podcasts: “New Age Renaissance”

In the podcast “New Age Renaissance” you’ll find: poetry, short story originals and some music compositions. It’s kind of intended to be, “a little bit of everything”. Most of the talks and stories are based around some form of informal philosophy. The overall, continued theme, is unity through diversity. Although the podcast sits at only…

Are We All A**Holes?

You know what sucks? A few days ago I was hit with the idea that, to someone somewhere, I’m the bad guy. Somebody has, or will, see me as a negative force in their life. No matter what I try to do or say, I will be the antagonist to their hero journey. Admittedly, that…

Track Electoral Votes With 270toWin, Hillary Is An Electoral Voter for New York

The Electoral College is comprised of 538 delegates: People who cast the votes that formally elect the president. It’s a system that tends to give smaller states a larger voice in the process of electing the president, and one that Clinton has publicly opposed in the past. We’re using https://www.270towin.com/ to pull data points from this voting season.

“Rialto” Movie Review

I had the pleasure of interviewing the director of “Rialto”, Peter Mackie Burns, after watching the film. Before I share his answers to questions and insights from our chat, I’ll share with you a bit about the movie and how its unexpected journey of responsibility resonates from start to finish. (Free of spoilers, of course).…

Morality

Morality: principles concerning the distinction between right and wrong or good and bad behavior. (Webster’s Dictionary). (Or: normatively to refer to a code of conduct that, given specified conditions, would be put forward by all rational people. Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy). The definition of morality as a whole is important, but words that stick out…

Disappointment and Regret

To be honest, it’s hard not to feel as though disappointment and regret are one-in the same. Beginning to write this, I’m still not entirely sure I know where I’m going with this piece. In the end it might only be filled with disappointment and regret, and still somehow I think that’s the point. Disappointment…

Gray Beauty

It’s easy to feel inspired by color, it’s easy to feel some sense of emotion brought on by vibrancy. Most of the time in life, we tend to see things as one way or the other: black and white, good and bad, law and order. We learn early that there aren’t really shades to living.…

The Sports World Has Shut Down. Again

On March 11 earlier this year, the NBA suspended the season after Utah Jazz center Rudy Gobert tested positive for the coronavirus. Soon after, the NHL suspended its season, the NCAA March Madness tournament never happened, and nearly the entire international sports world slowed to a halt, all due to the coronavirus pandemic. Now, on…

Washington Football Team Makes Historic Hire

It is no secret that the Washington Football Team has understandably faced their fair share of media scrutiny throughout this year; the team finally decided to separate themselves from their old Redskins team name only after large corporations, like Fedex, Nike and PepsiCo threatened to pull their sponsorships, owner Dan Snyder couldn’t come up with…

Wu Tang Clan’s RZA Writes New Ice Cream Jingle to Replace Racist ‘Turkey In The Straw’

RZA is most famous for his role as the mastermind behind the Wu Tang Clan. But the Staten Island native recently took his talents to a rather unexpected venue: ice cream trucks. Yes, the hip hop icon has partnered with Good Humor to create a new ice cream jingle that will be heard across American…

The NBA is Back and Players are Kneeling During the National Anthem. Except For One

Two days into the restart of the NBA, Orlando Magic forward Johnathan Isaac is the only player to refrain from kneeling during the national anthem, and abstain from wearing a t-shirt dawning “Black Lives Matter.” His reasoning is a valuable reminder to all that true progress doesn’t come from symbolic gestures, slogans, or from alienating…

The Washington Football Franchise Has Finally Made the Right Choice, but for the Wrong Reasons

The Washington DC based football team, formerly known as the Redskins, decided this past Monday, July 13, to officially change their name, mascot and logo, a decision that was decades in the making. However, the team’s decision to abandon their racist name and likeness was done for the wrong reasons. It would be nice to…