… First Ever Marketplace For Digital and Online Content, and Third Annual Tribeca N.O.W. (New Online Work) Showcase The 15th annual Tribeca Film Festival (TFF), presented by AT&T, today announced the inaugural Tribeca Digital Creators Market and Special Screenings program.…
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Natalie Lally Reviews YOU’RE KILLING ME
By Special Correspondent Natalie Lally – A perfect mixture of horror and romantic comedy, YOU’RE KILLING ME is a gay slasher film poking barbs at society’s self-absorbed Internet culture. George (Jeffery Self), an entertainment and social media maven, creates viral…
Tell the Black Caucus: Stop Taking Private Prison Money
By Rashad Robinson, ColorOfChange.org [info@colorofchange.org] This week, Donald Trump suggested we reform our broken prison system by increasing privatization, saying ‘Private Prisons seems to work a lot better.’1 Private prison companies are responsible for some of the worst human rights abuses targeting…
Juries Announced for 2016 Tribeca Film Festival
The TFF jurors include industry leaders, award-winning actors, acclaimed filmmakers, writers, entrepreneurs, artists and cultural leaders divided among 11 festival categories. The 2016 festival runs April 13–24. Winning films, filmmakers, actors, and storytellers to be announced at TFF Awards Night ceremony…
Natalie Lally’s GORED Film Review
By Special Correspondent Natalie Lally April 6, 2016 A suspenseful telling of a courageous adventure of a matador chasing his dream of becoming world famous. GORED is an intimate documentary about the most gored bullfighter in modern history, Antonio Barrera.…
Students Opine About the Fed Investigation of the Ferguson, Missouri, Police Department
Editor’s Note: The research and interviewing for this article was wrapped up a few days before the 2015 spring semester ended. Soon after it was published, the WORD experienced a catastrophic failure and years of stories and pictures were lost. The Editor is republishing this article and many others.
#OscarsSoWhite
The #OscarsSoWhite controversy was in full force in the weeks leading up to this year’s Academy Awards ceremony hosted by Chris Rock in late February.
America’s Political and Social Sturm and Dang of 2016 Fuels the Need for Surcease
By Senior Editor Jimmy Kelly April 4, 2016 After graduating high school in 2008, I did one year of college before withdrawing to seek adventure. I bartended, worked as a deckhand on tug boats, travelled through Costa Rica, Western Europe…
Latest Report from PSC President Barbara Bowen: Problems for CUNY with Governor Cuomo’s 2017 State Budget
The Professional Staff Congress represents 25,000 faculty and some staff at City University of New York Barbara Bowen, April 1: “Until early evening yesterday, the PSC was receiving word from legislators in Albany that the final State budget would include at…
