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International Fashion and Streetwear Culture: Inside the mind of Dominick Adams
BLCKNLIT - March 12, 2020 15:47 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 26 ratingsIn this episode, Priscilla and Jasmine speak with Dominick Adams, co-founder of Somewhere, a recently opened mixed-use retail space and cafe located in Southeast D.C. - minutes from where he grew up. He shares his story of making a career switch from working at the airport, to a corporate job, an...
World War C: Movies to Watch During Your Self-Quarantine.
SUNS Cinema Podcast - March 10, 2020 17:09 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsThe Suns Cinema crew is joined by Public Health expert Max Johansen. They discuss movies about viral health epidemics, why we watch them, what they get right or wrong about contagion and how we, as a society, contend with it.
Experiencing Love Through Commerce and Community: Inside the Mind of Anika Hobbs
BLCKNLIT - March 05, 2020 16:56 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 26 ratingsIn this episode, Jasmine and Priscilla talk to Anika Hobbs, the founder of Nubian Hueman, a local brick & mortar and online store featuring unique clothing and art by designers representing the global Diaspora. She also founded the Black Love Experience, an annual event showcasing black-owned bus...
Super Tuesday!
SUNS Cinema Podcast - March 03, 2020 18:33 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsSuns gets political for Super Tuesday. From Mr. Smith Goes To Washington to Bullworth, Jason and Ryan explore politics in cinema. They ask why elections make for good movie fodder, and how the medium has been used as a political tool to promote certain narratives. Powered and distributed by Simpl...
Addressing Racial Inequality Through Tech: Inside the mind of Aerica Shimizu Banks
BLCKNLIT - February 27, 2020 15:49 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 26 ratingsAerica Shimizu Banks started her career in Environmental Policy, eventually working with Google on Patent Policy and Diversity, Inclusion, and Equity Initiatives. She's currently the Public Policy and Social Impact Manager at Pinterest, where she works to create ecosystems that benefit marginaliz...
The Gang Goes to Mardi Gras
SUNS Cinema Podcast - February 25, 2020 19:01 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsFrom Tennessee Williams to Jean Claude Van Damme, the Suns Cinema gang discusses New Orleans in the movies. Powered and distributed by Simplecast.
Wine 101: Inside the Mind of Eric Moorer
BLCKNLIT - February 20, 2020 19:15 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 26 ratingsEric Moorer, Sommelier and Manager of Domestique, a local D.C. wine shop, stops by the BLCKNLIT podcast to pop open a few bottles of wine and take us on a journey into the world of vino. He shares his story of how he first became obsessed with the wine industry, as well as tips on how to enter th...
The Oscars Do The Right Thing(?)
SUNS Cinema Podcast - February 18, 2020 18:22 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsBong Joon Ho is King for a day, Rosie Perez and Margot Robbie fly high in Birds of Prey, Wes Anderson piques our pretentious interests, and Adam Sandler crushes his Independent Spirirt Awards speech. Powered and distributed by Simplecast.
Black Women Overcoming Dating Violence: Inside the Mind of Tenaj Moody
BLCKNLIT - February 12, 2020 23:03 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 26 ratingsJasmine and Priscilla talk with Tenaj Moody, the founder of Light to Life, a domestic violence awareness program offering workshops and events to young adults and teens on the prevention of abusive and unhealthy relationships. Tenaj survived an abusive relationship at the age of 16, which led her...
The Notscars
SUNS Cinema Podcast - February 04, 2020 18:04 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsPredictions and complaints about the nominations (and snubs) for the 2020 Academy Awards. The crew comes up with their own version of the oscars of snubbed performances. Powered and distributed by Simplecast.
Addiction Recovery for the Black Woman: Inside the Mind of Shayla Martin
BLCKNLIT - January 22, 2020 22:57 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 26 ratingsJasmine and Priscilla talk with freelance writer Shayla Martin, a former hospitality publicist, and current travel and lifestyle writer who seven years ago, after a traumatic event, realized that she was struggling with alcoholism and needed to take a risk to change her life. Shayla shares how so...
New Hollywood: Bonnie, Clyde, and the American New Wave
SUNS Cinema Podcast - January 21, 2020 17:57 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsThe Suns podcast takes a look at the 1968 Best Picture nominations to look at a changing Hollywood in the wake of the counter-culture, civil rights, and revolutions of the mid 60's. Powered and distributed by Simplecast
The Radicalness of Black Joy Expressed Through Art: Inside the Mind of Jamea Richmond-Edwards
BLCKNLIT - January 15, 2020 23:59 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 26 ratingsJamea Richmond-Edwards is a D.C. based mixed media artist whose work has been featured in some of the top galleries, museums, and experiential shows across the globe. Her work uses found objects and multiple mediums to create collage-style depictions of the black experience. On this episode of BL...
The Left Bank: Varda, Resnais, Marker, Joker
SUNS Cinema Podcast - January 14, 2020 18:05 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsThe Nominations of the 92nd Academy Awards completely derail what would have been a substantive conversation about Paris' Left Bank film movement. Powered and distributed by Simplecast
Reimagining the Black Neighborhood, starting with the Nail Salon: Inside the mind of Jhavon Kashif
BLCKNLIT - January 08, 2020 23:11 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 26 ratingsJhavon Kashif is the owner of Nailbed & Bar, a luxury, eco-friendly nail spa East of the Anacostia river, a majority black and historically underserved neighborhood in Washington, D.C. As the first black-owned nail spa of its kind in the area, Jhavon strives to prove that black owned businesses c...
New Year New Waves
SUNS Cinema Podcast - January 07, 2020 18:46 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsSuns Cinema roars into the 20s with some hot takes on Uncut Gems, Ricky Gervais, and New Wave Cinema with special guest Makda Amdetsyon (Suns' best bartender). Powered and distributed by Simplecast
Turning a setback into a bounceback: Inside the Mind of Kwame Onwuachi
BLCKNLIT - December 19, 2019 15:14 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 26 ratingsJames Beard Award winning chef and author, Kwame Onwuachi, is no stranger to setbacks, having overcome a difficult adolescence and later opening his first restaurant at 24, only to have it shutter in less than a year. We close out our last episode of the year, with someone who has dominated 2019,...
The End: The Best Movies of the Decade
SUNS Cinema Podcast - December 18, 2019 16:24 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratingshttps://letterboxd.com/cauleyfilms/list/best-of-the-2010s-suns-cinema-podcast/
Creating a community-centric business: Inside the Mind of Mahammad Mangum
BLCKNLIT - December 12, 2019 21:28 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 26 ratingsWhen you think of a flourishing community you likely imagine a place with access to educational and creative programming, affordable healthy food, and a safe space for members to interact. Today’s guest, Mahammad Mangum, didn’t always see these components in the community he grew up in so he crea...
Once Upon a Time in 2019: The Best Movies of the Year
SUNS Cinema Podcast - December 10, 2019 20:01 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsThe Golden Globe nominations have been announced and The Suns Cinema Podcast is here to tell them what they got wrong. They discuss the top movies to come out this year, as well as highlights from Suns' 2019 programming. Powered and distributed by Simplecast
Turning an Innovative Idea Into a Scalable Business: Inside the mind of Nicole Pinedo
BLCKNLIT - December 05, 2019 15:58 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 26 ratingsBLCKNLIT follows the stories of individuals who are pushing boundaries and inspiring their community, while exploring the varied paths that each subject has taken to reach the current point in their career. Hosted by Jasmine Pierce and Priscilla Ward, the series takes a deep look into the setback...
It's a Wonderful Dunkaccino
SUNS Cinema Podcast - December 03, 2019 19:22 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsThe Suns Cinema podcast dishes out the hot takes on Scorsese's luke warm The Irishman, before talking about the best holiday movies to watch this season. Skip to the end to listen to Al Pacino's Dunkin Donuts musical number "Dunkaccino" from Adam Sandler's 2011 flop JACK AND JILL. https://letter...
Car Talk
SUNS Cinema Podcast - November 26, 2019 18:11 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsThe car is the most important mechanical device in cinema, besides maybe the movie camera. The Suns crew talks automobiles, as a cinematic device, a mode of transport, and a metaphor for freedom and changing times. Just in time for the thanksgiving travel season. Powered and distributed by Simpl...
Training Day
SUNS Cinema Podcast - November 19, 2019 19:23 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsAll aboard the Suns Express, as they talk trains, and why they're so important to cinema. From The Great Train Robbery to Platform 9 3/4, trains have been a huge part of the history of the medium. Thanks for choo-choo-choosing the Suns Cinema Podcast. Powered and distributed by Simplecast
Creating a Black Running Community: Inside the Mind of Matthew Green
BLCKNLIT - November 14, 2019 18:23 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 26 ratingsAfrican Americans are notoriously underrepresented in the long distance running world. Matthew Green, the co-founder of District Running Collective (DRC) is working to change this by fostering a community of runners who go the distance and push past percieved limitiations to redefine their imposs...
What does it mean to be black?: Inside the mind of Obi Okolo
BLCKNLIT - November 08, 2019 16:57 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 26 ratingsBlackness is so many things, and expressed in many different ways. However, it's often policed by our own when it doesn't fall within the narrow confines of how others percieve it should be expressed. On this episode, our guest Obi Okolo, Founder of the creative agency, Stag Creative, shares his ...
Planes!
SUNS Cinema Podcast - November 05, 2019 17:50 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsThe Suns crew discusses air travel, and airplane movies for November's theme of Planes, Trains and Automobiles. Powered and distributed by Simplecast
Breaking down black stereotypes through film: inside the mind of Joe Marshall
BLCKNLIT - November 04, 2019 15:36 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 26 ratingsHumor throughout our culture has served as a place for grappling with difficult topics and stereotypes. Director, screenwriter, actor and comedian, Joe Marshall is doing just that, through his recently released web series, Middle Ground. On this episode, he discusses how he’s addressing taboo top...
Still Scary After All These Years
SUNS Cinema Podcast - October 29, 2019 16:50 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsDo you like Scary Movies? Do you ever rewatch those movies and realize they're not that scary? Or even worse, not even bad enough to be funny? The Suns crew explore the scary movies from their youth and compare them to the the horror hits of the last decade. Powered and distributed by Simplecast
Producing hits and advocating for women in the music industry: Inside the mind of TRAKGIRL
BLCKNLIT - October 24, 2019 15:20 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 26 ratingsIn this episode, BLCKNLIT talks with TRAKGIRL, one of the top female music producers, who has worked with artists like Jhene Aiko, Andra Day, Luke James, Belly and Omarion, just to name a few. We learn about the many ways she's advocating for women in the music industry to have access t...
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