The National Black Programming Consortium (www.nbpc.tv), Independent Television Service (www.ITVS.org), and the Ford Foundation (www.fordfound.org) have funded God Bless the Child Productions to produce an online short documentary entitled Barack & Curtis. The film is scheduled to be released this fall as part of The Masculinity Project.  Details to come!

Byron Hurt, Firelight Media, and National Campaign have created a Resource Guide for Activists - a comprehensive tool for activists and organizers to accompany the critically acclaimed documentary Hip Hop: Beyond Beats and Rhymes. The new resource guide is a product of the film’s national outreach campaign - a campaign that began one year before the film’s 2007 broadcast on PBS’s Independent Lens. The free guide is available online at www.bhurt.com.  For more information, contact Monifa Bandele at (917) 407-3018.

On April 15, 2008, the University of Botswana will screen Hip Hop: Beyond Beats & Rhymes. Two popular local hip-hop artists, Kast and Thobo, will attend and lead the post-screening discussion about Botswana hip-hop and the contextual issues which arise …. What are the links with American hip-hop? Do the issues raised in the film resonate with African hip-hop lovers? What will the students think about hip-hop as a genre, etc?