Black Public Media

25/06/2025

Continue celebrating 🏳️‍🌈 with Black Public Media’s pride month playlist - featuring our favorite BPM supported films that celebrate love, diversity, and acceptance.

✨Mama Gloria by Luchina Fisher

✨Portal by Rodney Evans

✨Hands Performance by Rashaad Newsome

✨The Aunties by Charlyn Griffith-Oro and Jeannine Kayembe-Oro. Ex-Produced by The Center for Cultural Power

All films available to watch now on YouTube. Link in bio

24/06/2025

: Episode 3 of AfroPoP: The Ultimate Cultural Exchange features “Neptune Frost” by Saul Williams and Anisia Uzeyman and “Tsutsue” by Amartei Armar.

Only available on and . Check your local listings✨

19/06/2025

Today, we honor Juneteenth — a celebration of Black freedom, resilience, and the ongoing journey toward justice. At Black Public Media, we remain committed to supporting storytellers who illuminate the history, struggles, and triumphs of Black communities across the globe.

Together, we amplify voices that remind us: our stories are acts of liberation.

11/06/2025

🚨 URGENT: Public Media is under attack.
Tomorrow, factions in Congress will vote to eliminate public media funding — including funds already allocated for 2026.

If this passes:
- Local PBS stations will lose critical funding
- Pre-K educators and caregivers will lose free educational tools
- Independent media makers will lose grants that support entire creative teams — from gaffers to editors
- Local jobs and small businesses will be impacted
- And free, public access to diverse, community-driven storytelling will be at risk

We need YOU to act NOW. Call your Representative and demand they : https://bit.ly/442GZDd
(Link in bio)

Public media isn’t just television — it’s education, it’s local news, it’s cultural storytelling, and it’s an investment in the creative economy.

Save your local stations. Call your Members of Congress now!

05/06/2025

Through rarely seen colorized archival footage and poetic narration, Mother Suriname tells the powerful story of Fansi — a washerwoman whose life spanned from slavery’s end to Suriname’s independence.

Inspired by director Tessa Leuwsha’s own grandmother, this moving documentary premieres June 9 on Black Public Media’s AfroPoP: The Ultimate Cultural Exchange.

🎥 Watch the trailer and stream the film on WORLD and PBS platforms.

22/05/2025

Black Public Media’s AfroPoP: The Ultimate Cultural Exchange returns to WORLD with a brand-new season spotlighting Black communities who are reshaping the world through art, innovation, and resistance.

From the shores of Suriname to the streets of Kinshasa, Season 17 of celebrates the spirit, ingenuity, and audacity of the African diaspora as they challenge the status quo.

16/05/2025

2025 Film Lineup is LIVE! Get ready for 60 groundbreaking feature documentaries & 34 shorts from 24 countries, including 10 World Premieres ✨ and a host of U.S., North American, & International Premieres. Discover urgent, visionary storytelling and meet the creators behind these vital stories at DC/DOX. Explore the program + get your Pass for the full experience, or grab single tickets now! 🔗 https://dcdoxfest.com/

15/05/2025

Exciting for feature length documentary filmmakers and nonfiction new media creators!

Our friends at AXS Film Fund are opening their 2025 application cycle on June 2, 2025.
They’re offering grants up to $10,000 to support up to 5 creators. Projects in any stage of production are welcome to apply. Underrepresented creators who identify as living with disabilities are encouraged to apply.

Are you or someone you know working on a powerful doc or nonfiction project? Send them here: www.axsfilmfund.org

12/05/2025

Today is the final day to stream the Lillian E. Benson Film Retrospective!🗣️

Celebrate the life and legacy of this groundbreaking editor and storyteller with six powerful films that span decades of Black history, art, and resilience.

Scan the QR code, click the link in our bio or head to blackpublicmedia.org to watch before the retrospective closes tonight!

01/05/2025

Meet your host for tonight’s PitchBLACK 2025 Awards: comedian Jamie Roberts!

Get ready for an unforgettable evening of celebration, storytelling, and joy at The Apollo’s Victoria Theater. Doors open at 6:30 PM ET. we’ll see you there!✨

28/04/2025

The virtual screening of Beyond the Steps: Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater is now liveQ Watch the trailer here, then join us for the full film and a special conversation with editor Lillian E. Benson, ACE, and director Phil Bertelsen.

Happening now: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_6pbawG4oTcem12i7X5ZPpQ

28/04/2025

Join us tonight, April 28, for a special virtual screening of Beyond the Steps: Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater at 7 PM ET, followed by a conversation with editor and 2025 BPM Trailblazer Award honoree Lillian E. Benson, ACE, and director Phil Bertelsen.

Then, celebrate Lillian’s extraordinary career with us in person at the PitchBLACK 2025 Awards on Thursday, May 1 at The Apollo’s Victoria Theater.

More info: blackpublicmedia.org/pitch-black