The documentary ‘Olympic Pride, American Prejudice’ extends the narrative to shed light upon all 18 African American athletes that helped defy the racism of Hitler and Jim Crow by competing at those Summer Games.
Lee worked with ESPN to make the documentary, which examines how the Black Lives Matter movement sparked activism at the University of Missouri–including the football team–and the rest of the county.
The AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF), in partnership with the BronzeLens Film Festival, Spelman College Women’s Center and the Black Women’s Health Imperative proudly present a screening tour of the groundbreaking HIV/AIDS documentary Wilhemina’s War throughout parts of the deep South, where HIV infection rates continue to spiral out of control. The eye-opening film, which was produced and directed by AHF Grant Fund recipient June Cross, follows a Southern grandmother’s struggles to help her loved ones as they navigate the landscape of HIV care and services in South Carolina, a state that’s been very hostile to public health care, specifically Medicaid
Filmmaker, Pulitzer Prize winning journalist and executive director Jose Antonio Vargas is traveling across the country in a new MTV documentary series White People that allows cameras to look into the lives of various White people and getting them to talk about the one issue that can be unsettling, race.
Fox Sports video editor and documentarian Byron Jackson had a passion for film recording. He used his filming skills to create a documentary series about his brother, DeSean Jackson: a wide receiver for the Washington Redskins. The docu-series “DeSean Jackson: Home Team” aired on BET on June 30. The series follows the career and family dynamics of DeSean. Byron also did a stint in the NFL and the Canadian Football League, but was more interested in Film and TV production. “My mindset was to go in a direction of, I believe, my true passion was, which was television and film,”