In the 1980s, there were only 63 Black films by, for, or about Black Americans. But in the 1990s, that number quadrupled, with 220 Black films making their way to cinema screens nationwide. What sparked this “Black New Wave?” Who blazed this path for contemporaries like Ava DuVernay, Kasi Lemmons and Jordan Peele? And how did these films transform American culture as a whole? Presenting The Class of 1989, a new limited-run series from pop culture critics Len Webb and Vincent Williams, hosts ...
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Radio ITVT: Mike Gaston, Founder and CEO of Cut.com (Part I)
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Mike Gaston is founder and CEO of Cut.com, the social-video company responsible for such viral hits as "100 Years of Beauty" and "Grandmas Smoking Weed for the First Time"--among countless others. In this first installment of a two-part interview with [itvt] Editor-in-Chief, Tracy Swedlow, Gaston explains why Cut.com focuses exclusively on social video, how the company views the various platforms on which it distributes its work, how it funds and monetizes its content, and how the ultimate goal of that content is to promote empathy.
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Mike Gaston is founder and CEO of Cut.com, the social-video company responsible for such viral hits as "100 Years of Beauty" and "Grandmas Smoking Weed for the First Time"--among countless others. In this first installment of a two-part interview with [itvt] Editor-in-Chief, Tracy Swedlow, Gaston explains why Cut.com focuses exclusively on social video, how the company views the various platforms on which it distributes its work, how it funds and monetizes its content, and how the ultimate goal of that content is to promote empathy.
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