Nicholas L. Ashe, Tina Lifford And More To Celebrate 10 Years Of 'AfroPoP'

Black stars of television and documentary and narrative filmmakers converging to celebrate Black Public Media (BPM)'s signature series AfroPoP: The Ultimate Cultural Exchange; the public television documentary series about the global Black experience is now in its 10th year. Black Public Media is a national media arts organization that funds Black films and trains filmmakers.

The evening is entitled Lifting the Veil on Disaster Relief: Fatal Assistance in Haiti, Puerto Rico and Beyond and will include a special screening of the AfroPoP season finale Fatal Assistance, by award-winning director Raoul Peck (I Am Not Your Negro), a sobering indictment of global aid policies that failed Haiti in the aftermath of the devastating 2010 earthquake. A relentless string of natural disasters in the Caribbean, Mexico and United States in 2017 further puts the spotlight on the disaster relief organizations' responses to tragedies in Haiti, Puerto Rico, Mexico, and beyond.

The event will be hosted by OWN Network series Queen Sugar Nicholas L. Ashe (Micah), who is AfroPoP season 10 host, and include a conversation led by award-winning journalist Maria Hinojosa with Hébert Peck, producer of Fatal Assistance.

Actors Tina Lifford (Queen Sugar); Jeremy Pope (Choir Boy and musical artist); Margot Bingham (Queen Sugar, She's Gotta Have It, Boardwalk Empire); and Sam McLellan (Interstellar Cinderella)

Filmmakers Allison Davis (180 Days); Carol Bash (Mary Lou Williams: The Lady Who Swings the Band); Michael Paul Britto (An Extra Day to be Black); Mike Brown (25 to Life); Brittany Clemons (180 Days); Lisa Cortes (Precious, Monster's Ball); Michael Fequiere (Kojo); Thomas Allen Harris (Through a Lens Darkly, That's My Face);
Shola Lynch (Free Angela & All Political Prisoners, Chisholm '72: Unbought & Unbossed); Richard Memminger (Dependent); Chantal Regnault (Deported); Marcia Smith (Tell Them We Are Rising); Michele Stephenson (American Promise, Haiti: One Day, One Destiny); Christine Turner (You Can Go); Ouida Washington (The Newark Project: Safe Passage); Rachel Watanabe-Batton (Travel Notes of a Geechee Girl)

BPM Executive Director Leslie Fields-Cruz and Director of Acquisitions and Programs Kay Shaw; BPM (formerly National Black Programming Consortium) Founding Executive Director Mable Haddock.