By Ronda Racha Penrice Urban News Service Kunta Kinte still haunts us. Nearly 40 years after it premiered, Roots – Alex Haley’s iconic quest, tracing his ancestry from slavery back to Juffure, The Gambia – still inspires African-Americans to reclaim their heritage. Today, the ripple effect of the 1977 ABC miniseries is evident in reality […]
Hollywood Next: Jeff Friday’s American Black Film Festival Fuels the Future
By Ronda Racha Penrice Urban News Service When Jeff Friday traveled to his first Sundance Film Festival to catch Love Jones in 1997, what struck him most is what he didn’t see. “I returned from Sundance very inspired by what I saw there, but what I did not see was filmmakers of color,” says Friday. […]