COVER STORY - Telling "OUR" Story
Dee Rees and Nekisa Cooper met while working in the marketing department at Colgate-Palmolive. Rees left the security of the corporate world to attend New York University film school.
“I really wanted to tell stories that were socially conscious, inter- esting and stories that just let people view themselves and the world around them in a more meaningful way,” says Rees, 34.
She was an intern for several Spike Lee movies, including Inside Man. She wrote the script for Pariah during this period, while under- going her own “coming out” process. Rees needed a thesis film to graduate and used the first act of her script as her project.
Editor's Note
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100 Years
In celebration of the NAACPs centennial anniversary the NAACP and The Crisis Magazine have teamed up with Gibbs Smith, Publisher, on a visually stunning new book chronicling the 100 years of the NAACP and The Crisis, NAACP: Celebrating a Century, 100 Years in Pictures.
The Crisis Presents:
The NAACP and The Crisis Magazine celebrated 100 years of the Crisis Magazine on November 17, 2010 in the New York Time Building. The evening featured the sights and sounds of W.E.B du Bois presented by Charles Everett Pace.
The Crisis Presents:
In a conversation with Jabari Asim, editor in chief of The Crisis magazine, marketing expert Erin Patton discusses how hip hop culture has developed over the years into a powerful sales tool used to sell everything from sneakers to luxury cars to household appliances.