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Sunwise Media
Ri-Karlo Handy (born October 1, 1979) is an American media executive and the CEO of Sunwise Media. He is also the founder and chairman of the Handy Foundation. Biography Early life and career Handy was born and raised in Oakland, California. He took a television production class at the age of 14, and subsequently began producing and directing music videos for artists such as En Vogue, Bone Thugs-n-Harmony, E-40, and Master P before working in television. Handy produced scripted and unscripted television series for BET, MTV and Fox. He became senior vice president of original programming at Bounce TV in 2014, where he produced series such as '' Mann & Wife'', '' Family Time'' and '' Saints & Sinners''. He left after the network was purchased by E. W. Scripps Company in 2017, to found his own production company. Sunwise Media Handy co-founded Sunwise Media with Elverage Allen in 2018. He has written, produced and directed a number of films and television series, such as ''Hope Vill ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Handy Foundation
The Handy Foundation is a nonprofit organization which provides training and career advancement opportunities to underrepresented individuals in the film industry. The organization was founded by chairman Ri-Karlo Handy in 2020. Overview The Handy Foundation holds workshops and apprenticeship programs to train young people for roles in the film industry, particularly technical aspects of production such as film editing. The foundation partners with studios and production companies for its career advancement programs. As of 2022, these partners included Netflix, ITV, Fremantle, 44 Blue, Critical Content, Warner Horizon Scripted Television, Bunim/Murray Productions and Tinopolis. The Handy Foundation also partners with local and national organizations to provide training and education, such as the Urban League of Los Angeles, the NAACP, Television Academy Foundation, Los Angeles City College, Mount Sac College, and California State University, Northridge. In 2023, the foundatio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tulsa Race Massacre
The Tulsa race massacre was a two-day-long white supremacist terrorist massacre that took place in the Greenwood District in Tulsa, Oklahoma, between May 31 and June 1, 1921, when mobs of white residents, some of whom had been appointed as deputies and armed by city government officials, attacked black residents and destroyed homes and businesses. The event is considered one of the worst incidents of racial violence in American history. The attackers burned and destroyed more than 35 square blocks of the neighborhood—at the time, one of the wealthiest black communities in the United States, colloquially known as "Black Wall Street." More than 800 people were admitted to hospitals, and as many as 6,000 black residents of Tulsa were interned in large facilities, many of them for several days. The Oklahoma Bureau of Vital Statistics officially recorded 36 dead. The 2001 Tulsa Reparations Coalition examination of events identified 39 dead, 26 black and 13 white, based on co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
NAACP Image Awards
The NAACP Image Awards is an annual awards ceremony presented by the U.S.-based National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) to honor outstanding performances in film, television, theatre, music, and literature. The over 40 categories of the Image Awards are voted on by the NAACP members. Honorary awards (similar to the Academy Honorary Award) have also been included, such as the President's Award, the Chairman's Award, the Entertainer of the Year, the Activist of the Year, and the Hall of Fame Award. Beyoncé is the All-Time leading winner with 25 wins as a solo artist. History The award ceremony was conceived by Toni Vaz during an April 1967 NAACP branch meeting in Beverly Hills. "I called it the Image Awards because I wanted a better image for the people who worked in the industry," Vaz said. "I wanted to put this award show together to thank the producers for giving good roles to people of color." The branch president liked the idea, Vaz said, bu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gil Robertson IV
Gil Robertson IV (born August 13, 1964, in Los Angeles, California) is an African-American journalist and author. He is president of the African American Film Critics Association. Early life and education Robertson attended South Park Elementary School in Los Angeles. He earned a B.A. degree in political science from California State University, Los Angeles. Career Robertson is known for his contributions to numerous publications that include: the ''Los Angeles Times'', ''The Atlanta Journal-Constitution'', Black Enterprise and Essence Magazine among others. He is also founder and editor of the ''Robertson Treatment Syndicated Column (RTSC)'', one of America's most widely read urban lifestyle columns targeting the African American demo. As an author, Robertson has contributed to the anthology ''Souls of My Brother'' and is a frequent contributor to the ''African American Almanac''. His first book, ''Writing As A Tool of Empowerment,'' was published in 2003. On December 1, 2006, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
African-American Film Critics Association
The African-American Film Critics Association (AAFCA) is the world's largest group of Black film critics that gives various annual awards for excellence in film and television. It was founded in 2003 in New York City. In 2023 ''Variety'' stated that since it started, "the organization’s purpose was clear: to amplify Black voices in film criticism and arts entertainment journalism from across the African Diaspora." History The association was founded in 2003 by Gil L. Robertson IV and Shawn Edwards. They met in New York City after a press junket, and were both concerned with the lack of themed stories in the film industry from the African Diaspora. In several weeks, the two of them were supported by other colleagues in their plan to create an association of black film critics. They drafted the initial outline for the association while in Los Angeles. In December 2003, the African-American Film Critics Association officially announced the start of its organization, and rele ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Motion Picture Editors Guild
The Motion Picture Editors Guild (MPEG; IATSE Local 700) is the guild that represents freelance and staff motion picture and television editors and other post-production professionals and story analysts throughout the United States. The Motion Picture Editors Guild (Union Local 700) is a part of the 500 affiliated local unions of the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (IATSE), a national labor organization with 104,000-plus members. There are more than 8,000 members of the Editors Guild. Function The MPEG negotiates collective bargaining agreements (union contracts) with producers and major motion picture movie studios and enforces existing agreements with employers involved in post-production. The MPEG provides assistance for securing better working conditions, including but not limited to, salary, medical benefits, safety (particularly "turnaround time") and artistic (assignment of credit) concerns. History On April 12, 1937, the US Supreme Court upheld th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gina Prince-Bythewood
Gina Maria Prince-Bythewood (born June 10, 1969) is an American film director and screenwriter. She began her career as a writer for multiple television shows in the 1990s, including the anthology series ''CBS Schoolbreak Special'', for which she was nominated for two Daytime Emmy Awards. Prince-Bythewood made her List of directorial debuts, feature film directorial debut with ''Love & Basketball'' (2000), for which she received an Independent Spirit Awards, Independent Spirit Award. Her other works include ''Disappearing Acts'' (2000), ''The Secret Life of Bees (film), The Secret Life of Bees'' (2008), and ''Beyond the Lights'' (2014). She became the first black woman to direct a major comic-book film, ''The Old Guard (2020 film), The Old Guard'' (2020). Prince-Bythewood earned nominations for Best Director at the Critics' Choice Movie Awards and the British Academy Film Awards for ''The Woman King'' (2022). Early life Prince-Bythewood was born in Chicago, Illinois, and adopte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Matthew A
Matthew may refer to: * Matthew (given name) * Matthew (surname) * ''Matthew'' (album), a 2000 album by rapper Kool Keith * Matthew (elm cultivar), a cultivar of the Chinese Elm ''Ulmus parvifolia'' Christianity * Matthew the Apostle, one of the apostles of Jesus * Gospel of Matthew, a book of the Bible Ships * ''Matthew'' (1497 ship), the ship sailed by John Cabot in 1497, with two 1990s replicas * MV ''Matthew I'', a suspected drug-runner scuttled in 2013 * Interdiction of MV ''Matthew'', a 2023 operation of the Irish military against a 2001 Panamanian cargo ship See also * Matt (given name), the diminutive form of Matthew * Mathew, alternative spelling of Matthew * Matthews (other) * Matthew effect The Matthew effect, sometimes called the Matthew principle or cumulative advantage, is the tendency of individuals to accrue social or economic success in proportion to their initial level of popularity, friends, and wealth. It is sometimes summar ... * Tropic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ava DuVernay
Ava Marie DuVernay (; born August 24, 1972) is an American filmmaker, screenwriter, and producer. She is a recipient of two Primetime Emmy Awards, Primetime Emmy Awards, two NAACP Image Awards, NAACP Image Awards, a British Academy Film Awards, BAFTA Film Award, and a British Academy Television Awards, BAFTA TV Award, as well as a nominee for an Academy Awards, Academy Award and Golden Globe Awards, Golden Globe. In 2011, she founded her independent distribution company ARRAY. After making her directoral debut, ''I Will Follow (film), I Will Follow'' (2010), DuVernay won the directing award in the U.S. dramatic competition at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival for her second feature film ''Middle of Nowhere (2012 film), Middle of Nowhere'', becoming the first black woman to win the award. For her work on ''Selma (film), Selma'' (2014), a biopic about Martin Luther King Jr., DuVernay became the first African-American woman to be nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Director; t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
People Of Color
The term "person of color" (: people of color or persons of color; abbreviated POC) is used to describe any person who is not considered "white". In its current meaning, the term originated in, and is associated with, the United States. From the 2010s, however, it has been adopted elsewhere in the Anglosphere (often as person of colour), including relatively limited usage in the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, Ireland, and South Africa. In the United States, the term is involved in the various definitions of non-whiteness, including African Americans, Asian Americans, Native Americans, Pacific Islander Americans, multiracial Americans, and some Latino Americans, though members of these communities may prefer to view themselves through their cultural identities rather than color-related terminology. The term, as used in the United States, emphasizes common experiences of systemic racism, which some communities have faced. The term may also be used with other collective cate ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Reverse Racism
Reverse racism, sometimes referred to as reverse discrimination, is the concept that affirmative action and similar color-conscious programs for redressing racial inequality are forms of anti-white racism. The concept is often associated with conservative social movements, and reflects a belief that social and economic gains by Black people and other people of color cause disadvantages for white people. Belief in reverse racism is widespread in the United States; however, there is little to no empirical evidence that white Americans are disadvantaged as a group. Racial and ethnic minorities generally lack the ability to damage the interests of whites, who remain the dominant group in the U.S. Claims of reverse racism tend to ignore such disparities in the exercise of power, which most sociologists and psychologists include in their definition of racism. Allegations of reverse racism by opponents of affirmative action began to emerge in the 1970s, and have formed part of a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Floyd Protests
The George Floyd protests were a series of protests, riots, and demonstrations against police brutality that began in Minneapolis in the United States on May 26, 2020. The protests and civil unrest began in Minneapolis as Reactions to the murder of George Floyd, reactions to Murder of George Floyd, the murder of George Floyd, a 46-year-old unarmed African American man, by Minneapolis Police Department, city police during an arrest. They spread nationally and internationally. Veteran officer Derek Chauvin was recorded as kneeling on Floyd's neck for 9 minutes and 29 seconds; Floyd complained of not being able to breathe, but three other officers looked on and prevented passersby from intervening. Chauvin and the other three officers involved were fired and later arrested. In April 2021, Chauvin was found guilty of Murder in Minnesota law#Second-degree murder, second-degree murder, Murder in Minnesota law#Third-degree murder, third-degree murder, and Manslaughter (United States ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
