VisAbleBlackwoman

Day one of the Tribeca Film festival I met filmmakers Sharae Nikai and David Lassiter co directors of the feature film, The Other, Gold. Sharae co directed produced wrote and stars in the film which is about grief, pandemic isolation and friendship. Info on the film go to www.tribecafilm.com/films/other-gold-2024

DREAMING WHILST BLACK is a new dramedy coming to Paramount+ and Showtime this weekend.  This week my special guest Koby Adom directed Episode two, The Reality and my personal favorite episode of the series three, The Friends  

Koby Adom is a Ghanaian-British director, writer, and executive producer. Best known for his work on Netflix’s British drama Top Boy and Knoughts and Crosses which is set in South Africa. Koby Adom has worked extensively across TV and film. In 2019, Koby founded London-based DBK Studios to quote the filmmaker, and make film and TV content for untold stories, especially for black and diverse narratives. 

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This week, I spoke with one of my favorite thought leaders, Baratunde Thurston.

His show America Outdoors with Baratunde Thurston premiered last year and blew my mind.  I interviewed Baratunde for Black Girl Nerds last year and this year attended a press briefing PBS held about season two of this outstanding series.

I reached out to his team to schedule a one-on-one, and they wholeheartedly said yes, so..here's our full edited conversation filmed for my podcast, VisAbleBlackwoman.

CLICK HERE for info on the Ice Mermaids of Maine

CLICK HERE for the book Baratunde Thurston recommended, Black Earth Wisdom: Soulful Conversations with Black Environmentalists by Leah Penniman 

CLICK HERE for TED talk - How to Deconstruct Racism One Headline at a Time - Baratunde Thurston

Season two of America Outdoors with Baratunde Thurston returns for a second season on Wednesdays, September 6-October 11, 2023, 10:00 pm EST on PBS (CHECK LOCAL LISTINGS), PBS.org and the PBS App.

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I Wasn't Going to see Oppenheimer, but a press briefing and a conversation with an atomic scientist changed my mind. The briefing, hosted by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, Tularosa Basin Downwinders Consortium, and Win Without War, focused on giving journalists context on the history behind the film.

The panelists Tina Cordova, Co-Founder of Tularosa Basin Downwinders Consortium, Mari Faines, and Nuclear Disarmament Advocate Stephen Schwartz, Senior Fellow, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, shared the stories of the people we most likely won't see in the film. The Latinx men and women who cleaned nuclear waste without protection cooked and cleaned the scientist's homes in Los Alamos, Navaho uranium miners who are still fighting for the government to cover the costs of their cancer treatments.

This podcast focus on my conversation with Stephen Schwartz about why The United States decided to bomb Japan instead of Germany.

This weeks guest is Shea William Vanderpoort director of 2 episodes of Prime Video’s Harlem and Disney + Saturdays. We chat about how he started off on the iconic Issa Rae web-series The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl and how important community and collaboration are to his creative process.

March is Women's History month, and this week I'm featuring an excellent book about the 19th Century abolitionist movement, The Agitators: Harriet Tubman, Martha Coffin Wright and Frances A. Seward: Three Friends who fought for Abolition and Women's Rights.

 Then I have a wonderful conversation with wine educator Tanisha Townsend of The Wine School Dropout podcast. We chat about her love of wine and discover how she moved from Chicago to Paris and started a thriving business hosting wine tours all over France.   

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This week we’re taking a culinary journey to Paris with my yum of the week, one of my favorite shows on HBO, Julia starring Sarah Lancashire. I have always loved Julia Child. Her story inspired my love of Paris and I realized my dream of taking cooking classes in Paris last fall. Which takes me to my interview this week with the co owner of the outstanding cooking school Cookn' With Class ,and cooking destination events company Let's Eat the World  Culinary Travel expert Yetunde Oshodi-Fraudeau.  CLICK HERE for more info on Cookn' With Class and Let's Eat the World.

This week I’m highlighting the most inspirational Tv series I’ve seen in the past two weeks. Netflix’s competition series Physical 100,  Apple TV+'s docuseries about World class surfers Make or Break, and HBO/Max’s competition series The Climb.  Then I’m chatting with director Julian Higgins of one of my favorite films of 2022, God’s Country, about the nuances of representation in The Last of Us.  It’s a fascinating conversation. Spoiler alerts for The Last Of Us episode 4.

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Reviews of AppleTV+'s Dear Edward and a review of the children's book You Will Do Great Things by Amerie. And coverage of the exclusive book launch dinner hosted by Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter, author, and book club founder Amerie and Macmillan Children's Publishing Group, to celebrate her upcoming picture book debut.  And a special thanks to the Arlo SoHo hotel in NYC for taking such loving care of me. Enjoy