writer. documentarian. sociology professor.
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B. Brian Foster, Ph.D. retweeted
I’m a culture producer, when it come down to Black folks, Mississippi and the South, I’m committed to making art, experiences and noise about us!
B. Brian Foster, Ph.D. retweeted
This was more than a screening for #sinners this was an invitation back home, to reconnect with our roots. The Mississippi Delta is the birthplace of black liberation, the birthplace of the blues. Thank you @proximitymedia @aallyahpatrice @tyler_yarbs
📸 by Justin hardiman
B. Brian Foster, Ph.D. retweeted
Sinners may have brought Clarksdale into the national spotlight, attracting thousands of visitors to the small city last weekend.
One thing about my folks back home is that they have always been proactive in creating the change they wish to see.
NEW: capitalbnews.org/sinners-scr…
B. Brian Foster, Ph.D. retweeted
In Clarksdale, MS — where there’s no active movie theater — reporting by AJP-supported @capitalbnews helped bring "Sinners" home. On May 29, Ryan Coogler, the cast & crew attended a screening, and @aallyahpatrice moderated a panel after. capitalbnews.org/clarksdale-…
B. Brian Foster, Ph.D. retweeted
For the people in the back 🗣️🗣️
I’m a JOURNALIST from MISSISSIPPI asking a question for local folk in Mississippi who wanted to know the answer. Everyone isn’t in the film industry or privy to how this stuff works.
B. Brian Foster, Ph.D. retweeted
“When I wrote that story it just picked up momentum and got to the people it needed to get to. It allowed Clarksdale and its beauty and its magic to be plastered on a national stage.”
Thank you @MSFreePress for interviewing me & amplifying Clarksdale!
mississippifreepress.org/sin…
B. Brian Foster, Ph.D. retweeted
Who knew that my initial tweet about the open letter started by Tyler Yarbrough—followed by a story I wrote that quickly went viral—would become the catalyst for screenings of Sinners in my hometown, Clarksdale, on May 29-31.
capitalbnews.org/clarksdale-…
B. Brian Foster, Ph.D. retweeted
“The hardest thing to teach a student—and the hardest thing to believe consistently—is that there is nothing ‘out there’ to go and get. There is no part, no career, no opportunity for which you should be searching and scrounging and coveting. All of the preparation is within, and you keep yourself mentally and physically fit; you remain generous with yourself and others; you stay deeply in study about your craft. Whatever is yours will then arrive.”
— Marian Seldes
B. Brian Foster, Ph.D. retweeted
We’re only 20 signatures away from our current goal of 400 to get a screening of the @SinnersMovie in Clarksdale, MS. Read the open letter to the cast and crew of Sinners and sign to be a part of the voices wanting to see this happen 🫶🏾 actionnetwork.org/petitions/…
B. Brian Foster, Ph.D. retweeted
A few of my friends, peers, organizations, fellow artists and creatives penned a letter to the cast and crew of Sinners. We’re proposing a movie screening activation for the folks down in Clarksdale, Mississippi. Read the full letter here 🫶🏾 actionnetwork.org/petitions/…
B. Brian Foster, Ph.D. retweeted
In Clarksdale, there's limited transportation and no movie theater. The town inspired Sinners, but many can't travel to see it in theaters.
They created a petition to invite Ryan Coogler & team to host a public screening and experience the Delta.
NEW: capitalbnews.org/clarksdale-…
B. Brian Foster, Ph.D. retweeted
If you’re a journalist in Mississippi who produces stories around community, health, business or agriculture I have a story for you 🫶🏾🥹
B. Brian Foster, Ph.D. retweeted
When I learned Sinners was set in Clarksdale, my hometown, I had to write. The film explores the depth of Black life through juke joint. But, here's the hard truth: these sacred spaces in the rural South are disappearing.
Let's discuss: capitalbnews.org/sinners-blu… #Sinners
B. Brian Foster, Ph.D. retweeted
For people who want to engage deeper with Mississippi people, especially Clarksdalians. This is an ethnography of the place, from someone who loves Mississippi forreal uncpress.org/book/9781469660…
Dr. Kim Shadey aite! Imma see Sinners later this week, but I like your read. If I'm understanding the scene from the film, then hell yeah, the trunk (from the film) is the "trunk" (from the blues epistemology), a method of survival rooted in the place.
Excited to read! Congrats, Doc!
Thrilled that my book, “Afterlives of the Plantation" will be published @ColumbiaUP in May 2025 & is AVAILABLE FOR PREORDER. It establishes the rural US South & Caribbean as sites of agricultural innovation & cultural/intellectual sophistication. For more, click the link below.
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