An African Election

Screened at the 2011 African Diaspora Film Festival in NYC

Directed by Jarreth Merz

Documentary, 90 min, 2010 (In English subtitles)

Actor/Filmmaker, Jarreth Merz, describes his first documentary as an African success story.He says, "We don't talk enough about the good things that are happening in Africa. Not everything that happens there has to do with death and suffering. It was important for me…

In the spirit of doing things bigger and better for 2012, the London Town team met up with Cara Sebastian again after her feature on Society Pages. She spoke to us about her influences, creative process and every detail that goes behind her alternative folk music style particularly with her guitar thumping- string slapping as she calls it.

SHAE London Team:  Describe your sound?

Cara Sebastian: Hmmm- its a toughie that one- syncopated dark love-song beebop? My influences have all come from incredible musician friends of mine- I love old jazz/swing/skiffle records and I have every Ani Difranco CD ever made-  When I wrote most of the newest recordings, I was living in a big…

Girls from The Kuyu Project working on a social media campaign

Artist in AFRICULTURBAN

So AFRIKA21 vol. 3 has been out for a couple weeks now. We've tweeted, facebooked, blogged, had 2 radio broadcasts, an on-air interview with the project's producer Spoek Mathambo, and have…

From L-R: Ruben Santiago-Hudson, Condola Rashad, Mekhi Phifer, Rosie Benton, Tracie Thoms and Dulé Hill star in Stick Fly. (Photo courtesy of http://stickflybroadway.com/.)

Playwright Lydia R. Diamond’s Stick Fly takes us into a world that feels…

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"Beauty Shop" by Thabile Rasa is the 5th track on our AFRIKA21 mixtape vol. 3. Thabile hails from South Africa. Check out the complete track below! and download the entire AFRIKA21 mixtape for FREE while you're at it!

Beauty Shop - Barber Shop Remix by…

Little Brother. (Photo Courtesy: http://littlebrotherfilm.com/.)

Little Brother is a wonderful new documentary film series from filmmakers Nicole Franklin and Jasmin Tiggett that gives young black boys a real platform to talk about an array of subjects--love, life, and simply put, how they see the world around them. I recently…