Burrell Communications Group announced today that it will honor its “golden anniversary” year by launching a new community engagement initiative, “50 Acts of Kindness.” Created in tribute to 50 years
This Black History Month, AT&T Dream in Black presents the return of Black Future Makers, a future-forward celebration of inspirational people in the culture. The campaign was announced via a commercial celebrating
Phil Lee, director and editor at Spin Artist, joins the 2020 edition of Reel Chicago Black List, an annual celebration of African-American creativity published during Black History Month. The Reel
Troy Pryor is the inaugural honoree for the 2020 Reel Chicago Black List, an annual celebration of African-American creativity published during Black History Month. Troy Osborne Pryor is an award-winning
Documentary about Richard Antoine White’s inspiring life earns the Richard and Ellen Sandor Family Black Harvest Film Festival Prize R.A.W. TUBA was awarded Best Short film at the 25th Annual
The Gene Siskel Film Center’s 25th annual celebration of African Americans and the African diaspora August 3-29 The Gene Siskel Film Center celebrates the stories, dreams, history, and legacy of
An experiential coffee shop meets cultural conversation in Havas’ latest lobby installment (donuts included) Coffee is a piping hot vehicle that can showcase what many black people experience, and have
Acting on Showtime’s hit series “The Chi” is just one of the versatile artist’s many career success stories Native Chicagoan La Donna Tittle is an accomplished actor, model, radio personality
The Midwest’s largest and longest-running Black film festival presents a combined total of over 60 narrative features, documentaries, and shorts The 24th annual Black Harvest Film Festival opens
Well, it’s about time. Thank you, Spotify! Spotify will celebrate Black creators beyond the month of February with the launch of “Black History Is Happening Now.” Artists, creatives and organizations
Havas Chicago has a little “Blacksplaining” to do to the rest of us. To celebrate Black History Month and carry the conversation into Women’s History Month, Havas Chicago has launched its
If not for Black people, the United States would be a pretty boring place to live. So much of our popular culture is rooted in the experience of African Americans
February Black History Month in Chicago starts off Sunday, Feb. 1 with a program of three rare films (one shot on Super
Hugh Schulze, the CEO of West Loop marketing communications agency recently turned filmmaker, returned to his home town of Detroit in 2012 to direct
A documentary that came from the heart and began five years ago about a courageous woman in the local film business, who lives with an incurable disease, will have its
Take advantage of the last of the big, important events in November, especially during the two weekends prior to Thanksgiving, including several film festivals, a tour of Cinespace studios and
Back from hiatus, Jack Conrad’s Black Sundae gives African American artists an opportunity to find out what’s happening in the world of entertainment in a sweet way . . .
Joe Swanbert has a role in pseudonymous Bernard and Bichard Shumanski’s locally-shot “tender sexploitation flick,” “Blackmail Boys.” TLA Releasing picked it up for theatrical distribution. It’s scheduled to open this
Wal-Mart’s first documentary made in honor of Black History month?”The Invisible Men of Honor: The Story of the Buffalo Soldiers”?will air exclusively throughout the year on TV One.
Seattle corporate producer Martin Whitehead is set to direct his feature debut here this July, the digital supernatural thriller “The Promise Keeper.”
Whitehead and his New York-based
