“Dr. Vibe Show Takes” contains various types of content such as our “takes” on different subjects and events, what we are up to and useful pieces of information. Enjoy!!
“Dr. Vibe Show Takes” contains various types of content such as our “takes” on different subjects and events, what we are up to and useful pieces of information. Enjoy!!
Join Dr. Vibe and Marie Roker-Jones as we chat with three women filmmakers who are challenging the stereotypes of black boys, men and single mothers. We are excited to have Nicole Franklin, Daphne McWilliams and Mya B. join us as we talk about their films and how they are telling the stories that are changing how we view racism, parenting, education and more.
Meet the filmmakers:
Daphne McWilliams
Daphne McWilliams is Documentary Film Producer.
She has produced music videos, commercials and documentaries and has worked with Spike Lee, Martin Scorsese, Sam Pollard and Charles Burnett.
Nicole Franklin is an award-winning filmmaker, television director, stage manager, editor, educator, public speaker and web event host. For fifteen years, her company EPIPHANY Inc. has been producing independent films for numerous cable networks including Showtime, BET, IFC, Nickelodeon, Sundance Channel and The Documentary Channel. Her credits include The Double Dutch Divas!, Journeys In Black: the Jamie Foxx Biography, Kids Around the World, NBC Nightly News, The Today Show, Black Enterprise Business Report, and she is part of the Emmy-Award winning team on CBS Sunday Morning. Her current educational films include Gershwin & Bess: A Dialogue with Anne Brown and the 10-chapter series Little Brother, both titles distributed by Third World Newsreel. Little Brother is a recipient of the Foundation to Promote Open Society/Campaign for Black Male Achievement Award, fiscally sponsored by Fractured Atlas. Inspired by Gershwin & Bess…, Nicole has a screenplay in development titled BESS. EPIPHANY Inc. is the co-parent company of MIDNIGHT MEDIA CAPTURE, LLC, a web event channel where stories drive brands. Nicole also hosts a weekly web forum, An EPIPHANY Conversation, a global discussion among the inspiring people behind incredible stories.
Nicole’s affiliations include Directors Guild of America (DGA), Producers Guild of America (PGA East), IBEW, The Black Documentary Collective (BDC), DV Republic and New York Women in Film & Television (NYWIFT). Project reels may be viewed at YouTube.com/NicoleFilms. In-person speaking appearances are fiscally sponsored by Fractured Atlas. www.nicolefanklin.com
Mya B.
Mya B. is a filmmaker born and raised in Chi-town. She currently resides in Brooklyn, NY. She graduated from Columbia College Chicago in Film Studies. Her first short documentary, ‘Warrior Queens’ was shown at the Dusable Museum of African American History in Chicago. She completed her first feature-length documentary entitled, ‘Silence: In Search of Black Female Sexuality in America’ in 2004. The film has won many accolades, festival acceptance, and awards. Since then, her writing has gotten recognition. Her short script, Maya: The Illusion, won honorable mention in the American Gem screenwriting competition and she was a BET finalist in the Rap It-Up competition in 2006. After seven years of groundbreaking interviews and research, she is currently out of production for “Afraid of Dark,” which documents the treatment of black men in America based on stereotypes.
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The panelists gave their comments on the 2016 American Presidential Election.
Some of the conversation topics are:
– The panelists reaction to Donald Trump being elected President-Elect of the United States
– What did Donald Trump do right?
– What did Hillary Clinton and the Democrats do wrong?
– The media’s role in the campaign
– Was the election a whitelash?
– What is Barack Obama’s legacy?
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Society tells us that a man’s role is as breadwinner and that the American Dream is to work and save until you can retire – but we’re never really taught the skills to achieve this goal, let alone anything outside the standard narrative.
Join CPA Albert Okagbue and host Dr. Vibe via The Good Men Project Google+ Hangout live tonight at 9 p.m. Eastern/6 p.m. Pacific where they will be talking about men and money – what it means to have it- and to not- and to discuss the changing roles of men in families where more wives are working, and many dads are home with the kids.
Sybrina Fulton and Tracy Martin’s 17-year-old son was killed by a neighbourhood watchman who was acquitted of his murder. They talk about becoming activists – and how they lost ‘hope and faith’ in justice. Click on the link below to read more.
Cornel West feels that if Martin Luther King Jr. were alive today, he would want a revolution not a memorial. Click on the link below to read his thoughts.
Bill Clinton isn’t the first person to blame ‘black-on-black crime’ for higher poverty and prison rates among black Americans. Click on the link below to read more.
