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None on Record: Nick

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After arriving to New York City, Nick entered into Columbia University on fellowship, transitioning from female to male in his third year of study.

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Black FIlmmakers on FIlm: Byron Hurt

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Documentary filmmaker Noland Walker spends some time with critically acclaimed filmmaker Byron Hurt talking about his themes on hip hop and black masculinity in America.

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Black FIlmmakers on F...Documentary filmmaker Noland Walker talks with black emerging and veteran filmmakers about their work. Here Walker spends some time with critically acclaimed filmmaker Byron Hurt talking about his themes on hip hop and black masculinity in America.
- 2.87/5
Tags: film documentary, byron...

Education - from Hamp...As part of a comprehensive audio series for the Masculinity Project the students and journalism faculty at Hampton University put together a brief expositional narrative here on the state of the American education system and its intersection with race and class. What is the fourth grade failure syndrome? Who does it affect? And what can be done to counteract it?
- 2.99/5
Tags: audio education, black...

NMI 2007: Juke Joint ...As part of NBPC's New Media Institute 2007, 26 producers gathered in Jackson, Mississippi to create new media pieces documenting blues culture in the Mississippi Delta. Their final products are as varied as their talents; video and audio pieces, interactive locative media geo tags, even website architectures. NBPC's NMI 2007 was a partnership with Mississippi Public Broadcasting, the Mississippi Blues Trail and the B.B. King Museum. These pieces are scheduled to become part of both the Mississippi Blues Trail, and the B.B. King Museum.
- 2.93/5
Tags: audio music, mississippi...

None on Record: NickNick Mwaluko was born in Tanzania, East Africa and raised in Kenya. After arriving to New York City, Nick entered into Columbia University on fellowship. Transitioning from female to male in his third year of study, he remained on the Dean's List and graduated Magna Cum Laude. Nick's play WAAFRIKA, which is about a Kenyan woman's affair with a white female PeaceCorps Volunteer, premiered with critical acclaim and has won numerous awards. He is finishing his Masters in Fine Arts with a Concentration in Playwriting from Columbia University. Nick Mwaluko was interviewed by Selly Thiam in New York City.
- 2.98/5
Tags: audio gay, queer...

Perceptions Shattered...This is a one-hour audio feature produced as a youth project with the Public Radio Exchange and Chicago’s WBEZ. It creatively explores, through spoken word and a variety of edited story segments, the questions surrounding being black and male in America today through an array of youth characters using casual, conversational storytelling.
- 3.06/5
Tags: audio black masculinity...

Prison - from Hampton...Here the students and journalism faculty at Hampton University explore the prison system and its ties to race and class in America; the end result of an unbalanced system which disproportionately influences the lives of young black men in America. Is the road to prison more often treaded by black male soles? And what role does education play in evading the prison trap?
- 3.03/5
Tags: audio prison, social...

Rip & Rebind Rebind: ...This episode takes a look at remix culture and the controversy of the sample. Since the inception of the photograph, idea of art has been less concerned with the human hand and more dependent on the eye and the capabilities of technology. Enter sampling. Can an art whose instrument manipulate previously existing sounds be considered an original? By the standard already established by photography, can what hip-hop produces be considered art? Or is it stealing?
- 2.86/5
Tags: hip hop, music...

Rip & Rebind: The Fis...There seems to be an obsession with youth that is prevalent in Hip-Hop culture today. Its originators are now in their thirties and forties, yet the genre is overrun with rappers named "young". When do we let go of our youth? Or do we have to at all? Visit the <a href="http://blackpublicmedia.org/ripandrebind.php">Rip & Rebind</a> page for all episodes in the series **Rating: Some adult language, viewer discretion advised.**
- 3.03/5
Tags: hip hop, music...

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