Thanks to everyone who watched and reached out after seeing the ‘Black Muslim Narratives’ panel. Always humbled by your support and gratified to be serving something bigger than myself. For those who missed it (or want to rewatch), here’s the full panel. Enjoy!
I’m blessed to announce I have an active role in ‘Utah’ this year… Monday, February 1st, I’m on the panel ‘A New Narrative: Championing Authentic Black Muslim Stories’, as part of the 4th Annual MACRO Lodge at the Sundance Film Festival. The panel is free to the public, but an account needs to be made […]
If you’re reading this, you made it through the most collectively stressful twelve months of (the overwhelmingly majority of) our lives. Positive vibes into the future. Happy New Year to all.
Last ‘pandemic monologue’ for the year. Hopefully last ‘pandemic monologue’ ever but we shall see. From ‘Radio Golf’ by the great August Wilson. This one has booked me a few things back in the olden days when people would gather in a place to watch a group of actors perform a story together live on […]
Very happy to tell you the pandemic hasn’t completely stopped my momentum… ‘Midnight In Kansas’ continues to impress, and I can announce myself as one of the eight writers chosen for this year’s MPAC Hollywood Screenwriting Lab. As I said at Urbanworld last summer, I hate that this country continues to make this story evergreen, […]
What month is it again? After I made the transition from ‘clinically depressed’ to ‘functionally depressed’, I’ve gotten my groove back writing. As far as working in front of the camera, Taylor Swift cut me my last check, which feels like happened in 2012 at this point… In the meantime I’ve been upgrading my at […]
The Chiefs win the Super Bowl then Kobe then the global pandemic then a new Black Lives Matter tipping point and it goes on. I’d like one more momentum shift (come November-ish) but the first half of this year has probably taken care of me for the decade, and I know I’m not the only […]
Well, I’ll start with the relatively obvious: I’ve never been happier or more at peace. Anything is possible. I’m not saying that in the optimistic way, but in the pessimistic way. A few of you have at some point read Manning Marable’s excellent breakdown of Malcolm’s life; more of you I think watched the recent […]
Where to begin? I finally made it to the Playboy Jazz Festival this year. I finally made it to Strawberry Fields. I had a strong feeling that John was going to play ‘Continuum’ live at the Forum, but I was too deep in the eye of the hurricane at that moment to go to that […]
On the off chance you haven’t seen this yet… I’ve followed Matthew for years on the Twitter so I remember when he had his Kickstarter for this. Wasn’t in a place to give like that but liked the idea. Missed seeing it on the big screen as well, but now that it’s online… My, my, […]
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