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City Kid, Nelson George in Brooklyn April 8th and more news
By Nelson | april 6, 2010 | Post a comment
Spring/Summer 2010 is looking busy for the good folks at my company
Urban Romances with book, TV, film and internet projects on their way.
Thanks for checking out what's up at Urban Romances.
City Kid: A Writer's Memoir of Ghetto Life and Post-Soul Success,
my memoir of growing up in New York City, has just been released in
paperback. This Thursday,
April 8, 2010 I will read and discusses City Kid with Touré
at Greenlight
Bookstore 686 Fulton Street, Brooklyn, NY, 730pm-830pm.
Thriller:The Musical Life of Michael Jackson will be published on
the first anniversary of MJ's death. This book is very focused look at
the biggest selling album of all time with an emphasis on the late
singer's artistic evolution.
Left Unsaid,
an on line series I shot in Brooklyn last summer,will be launched this
July. This 19 episode series looks at the interaction of fifteen women
at a Sunday brunch, touching on motherhood, gentrification, racism and
sex.
A Walk Through Fort Greene is a
documentary I'm co-directing with Diane Paragas about the black arts
community that thrived in the area in the '80s and '90s. Among those
interviewed are Spike Lee, Chris Rock, Rosie Perez and Talib Kweli.
VH1's Hip
Hop Honors will be back June 7 with tributes to some of the
biggest names in the game.
I've been traveling all over the globe the past eight months,
shooting travel videos for www.BlackAtlas.com, a
site that serves as an on line community for African-American tourists.
Videos, blogs and pictures are posted my myself and members of the
black travel community.
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3 comments for 'City Kid, Nelson George in Brooklyn April 8th and more news'
Writeonbro on august 29, 2010 at 00:35:44 PM says:
A walk through Fort Greene should give everyone a fresh look at the depth of Black artistic work, that is long past due. African American creativity didn't begin and end with the Harlem renaissance and all of it surely doesn't mirror Blaxplotation films .
Wolesale Dealer on august 4, 2010 at 10:41:39 PM says:
This is a very good work such documentaries are much needed to improve our society
mutuelle on june 21, 2010 at 00:02:39 AM says:
hello, this seems to be nice,A++
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