Tag: black women

Ava DuVernay Illuminates the Connection Between Incarceration and Slavery in Netflix Documentary “13th”

Read all about it and watch the trailer at The Mary Sue.

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Join Author Nisi Shawl on Her ‘Everfair’ Tour!

See the tour schedule at Tor.com.

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Help Fund Kristina Leath-Malin’s Stephen King Film Adaptation, ‘One For The Road’

Check it out at Graveyard Shift Sisters!

https://youtu.be/3Dm6aCGfGgs

Ava Duvernay Will Be First African American Woman to Helm $100 Million Film

Read about it at Women and Hollywood blog.

Director Ava Duvernay

Director Ava Duvernay

Graveyard Shift Sisters Interviews Gruesome and Glam Filmmaker Lary Love Dolley

Click here to read at Graveyardshiftsisters.com.

And watch the trailer for her new short Ectoplasm.

Fillmmaker Lara Love Dolley

Actress, model and filmmaker Lara Love Dolley

Senate Just Approved the New Librarian of Congress: She’s Black

Read about Carla Hayden at Mentalfloss.com.

Hayden is the both the first woman and the first African American to assume the title.

Carla Hayden, first woman and African American to be named U.S. Librarian of Congress

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From the article:

“Part of what qualified her for the role in the eyes of the president, he said in a statement earlier this year, was her devotion “to modernizing libraries so that everyone can participate in today’s digital culture.”

‘Dope’ Actress Kiersey Clemons Top Choice for ‘The Flash’ Female Lead

Read all about it at Variety.com.

Kiersey Clemons (middle) in Dope

Kiersey Clemons (middle) in Dope

Blerd Girl Magic: The Media Diversified and Black Girl Nerds’ Founders Interview

Click here to read.
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From Generocity.org: This Time-traveling Sci-fi Writer Is Not Your Average Public Interest Attorney

Click to read this great piece about Rasheedah Phillips.

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6 Black Women Beyoncé Channels in ‘Lemonade’ — from Warsan Shire to Zora Neale Hurston

Check it out at Vox.com.

Watch this video of Zora Neale Hurston’s anthropological field work: