Black Public Media Archives - Harlem World Magazine

PitchBLACK: Largest Pitch Competition for Black, Independent Filmmakers where Participants Compete for up to $150K in Funding

Filmmakers and creative technologists will vie for up to $150,000 in project funding at Black Public Media’s PitchBLACK Forum, on April 26 and 27, 2022 the largest pitch competition for Black, independent filmmakers and creative technologists in the United States.Continue reading

The New York Community Trust Grant To Harlem’s Black Public Media To Create Climate Change And Environmental Justice Films

The New York Community Trust (NYCT) has awarded $223,000 to Black Public Media (BPM) to help Black documentary filmmakers create films about climate change and environmental justice.Continue reading

Story Of Black Trans Icon ‘Mama Gloria’ Opens New Season Of ‘AfroPoP: The Ultimate Cultural Exchange’

The new season of AfroPoP: The Ultimate Cultural Exchange premieres this spring with filmmaker Luchina Fisher’s Mama Gloria.Continue reading

Producers Vie For Up To $150,000 At The PitchBLACK Forum (Updated)

Ten producing teams will vie for up to $150,000 in project funding at the Black Public Media (BPM) PitchBLACK Forum, an interactive pitching competition to public television and commercial distributors and funders.Continue reading

Harlem’s Leslie Fields-Cruz Named To Crain’s New York Business’ Black Notables List

Leslie Fields-Cruz, executive director of Black Public Media (BPM), has been named to Crain’s New York Business’ 2021 Notable Black Leaders and Executives list.Continue reading

Harlem’s Black Public Media And MIT Bring Black Creatives Into The Emerging Tech Field

Carla LynDale Bishop has been selected as the inaugural recipient of the MIT & Black Public Media Fellowship, hosted by MIT Open Documentary Lab and sponsored by MIT Center for Art, Science & Technology. Continue reading

Harlem’s Black Public Media Now Accepting Submissions For Its 360 Incubator+ Program

Black Public Media (BPM) is now accepting applications for the 2021 cohort of its 360 Incubator+ programs. Continue reading

Black Media Story Summit 2020 Shows Why #BlackStoriesMatter

Black STORIES Matter! This was the subtext of the recent biennial National Black Media Story Summit.Continue reading

40 Year Old Black Public Media Hosts Virtual 2020 National Black Media Story Summit

In celebration of its 40th anniversary, Black Public Media (BPM) hosts the second biennial National Black Media Story Summit from Tuesday, June 23 to Thursday, June 25, 2020.Continue reading

Harlem-Based Black Public Media Marks 40th Anniversary With ’40 For 40 Media Game Changers’ List

Committed to the ongoing fight of speaking truth to power and amplifying voices of diversity across America for four decades, Black Public Media (BPM) is celebrating its 40th anniversary.Continue reading

Danielle Brooks Of “Orange Is The New Black” To Host New Season Of ‘AfroPoP’

Award-winning actress Danielle Brooks, star of Netflix’s blockbuster series Orange Is the New Black, has been named the host of the eleventh season of the public television series AfroPoP: The Ultimate Cultural Exchange.Continue reading

Harlem’s BPM Announces Jacquie Jones Memorial Scholarship Fund Deadline

Black Public Media (BPM) announced a call for applications for the Jacquie Jones Memorial Scholarship Fund (JJMSF) on Monday. Continue reading

Harlem’s Black Public Media Deadline Looms For $150K In Funding For Series Pilots

Black Public Media (BPM), the nation’s only nonprofit dedicated solely to media content about the black experience, has issued an open call to producers for nonfiction broadcast projects (individual programs or series pilots) and scripted or nonfiction digital web series.Continue reading

Harlem-Based Black Public Media Awarded $40 K NEA

Black Public Media (BPM) has been awarded an Art Works grant of $40,000 by the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA). Continue reading

‘Queen Sugar’ Star Nicholas L. Ashe, Maria Hinojosa And More Celebrate AfroPop

Black Public Media (BPM) will commemorate the 10th anniversary of AfroPoP: The Ultimate Cultural Exchange, its signature public television documentary series about the global Black experience, with Lifting the Veil on Disaster Relief: Fatal Assistance in Haiti, Puerto Rico and Beyond.Continue reading