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'I Love My Hair' Video Inspired By Father's Love of Daughter 'Sesame Street' Writer Pens Song To Help Black Girls Love Their Hair

“I LOVE MY HAIIIIR”: The Back-Story On The “Sesame Street” Skit

Da new jam. Go Willow! This little 9 year old is killin’ it!

Me Broni Ba (My White Baby) - Smithsonian National Museum of African Art

I was invited to show Me Broni Ba (My White Baby) to DC Area Teens at the Smithsonian National Museum of African Art on Friday. The workshop was called Flipping the Script and was led by programmer, Nzingha Kendall. I had such a great time with these students! And I was highly impressed with their knowledge in African Cinema! They are so on point and articulate!

Recap the Flipping the Script Teen Media Literacy Workshop at Alan W. King’s Blog:

http://alanwking.wordpress.com/2010/08/07/dc-area-teens-flip-the-script-in-a-film-workshop/#comments

Robert Flaherty Seminar 2010, Part 2: Work Forces

Owusu, on the other hand, works in video, but like Uman she finds continuities between her medium and local crafts and culture. Me Broni Ba (or My White Baby) comprises images of Kumasi hair salons where women use white baby dolls to practice hair-braiding, forming a rhythmic, stop-start montage that partly analogizes their work to Owusu’s own artful interweaving. - Leo Goldsmith

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Owusu’s films are graphically dynamic collages of the cultural and economic exchange between Ghana and the U.S. The only member of her family born in America, she uses advertisements and her own footage to draw lines of cultural lineage, including the comically damning journey in Intermittent Delight (2007) of Ghanian batik cloth making its way into a 50s Westinghouse refrigerator commercial.

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