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In our latest podcast episode, NOISE culture reporter Ashley Salem and board vice president Emily Chen-Newton discuss the film, "From the Hood to the Holler," part of the Omaha Film Festival screening online through Apr. 2. Emily is from Kentucky where the documentary is set. The film, directed by @PatMcGeeFilms, follows the campaign of Charles Booker while he makes political history as a Black candidate from the west end of Louisville, Ky. -- which is like Omaha's north side-- in his attempt to unseat the powerful U.S. Senator Mitch McConnell. The podcast includes a curated list of @OmahaFilmFestvl entries picked for our NOISE audience.
Our latest podcast episode is an homage to Black motherhood. Our guests on this episode, Pastor LaShea Pogee and foster parent Mercedez Langford Brown, chat with NOISE's Ashley Salem about the many dimensions of mothering.
New Podcast Live! As honey bees swarm around him, Clark Williams says working with bees makes him feel alive. His nine-year old daughter, Aaliyah Porter, plays with a collection of sticks several yards away as NOISE reporter Emily Chen-Newton interviews Clark about his bees.
Aaliyah is by no means afraid of the bees. Quite the contrary, she calls them her angels because she finds being with them so peaceful. Walking down the path away from the hives with his daughter leading the way, Clark muses about the many metaphors that bees give their keepers. "They take care of their queens." This is a metaphor for how communities need to take care of their sisters, mothers and daughters.
Blood memories. Memories that can harbor joy, pain, heroic courage, sloshing rage, and everything in between. These memories are ones that have an impact on you; carrying layers of intricate meaning. Groundbreaking African American Choreographer, Alvin Ailey’s voice, work, and expression inform the newly released Sundance documentary entitled AILEY, wherein the theme of blood memories run deep.
Nigel Phillips’ father, Kenny Ingram, his mother and sister, Tonya and Sierra Phillips spoke to reporters for half an hour after a backyard memorial service for Nigel where friends and family released balloons near the spot where he took his own life during a police foot chase following a traffic accident. CLICK HERE to listen to a short podcast of highlights from the interview produced by NOISE and Figure Podcasts.
Over 100 people were detained in a mass arrest in Omaha Nebraska last weekend while professing Justice for James Scurlock and solidarity with the Protests in Portland. It is believed the mass arrest violated state law, and the violent treatment protesters say they experienced at the hands of police raises bigger questions of civil rights violations. Hear what the protesters experienced in their own words in The Protestors' Diary: Farnam Street Bridge.
Noisemaker Ashley Salem joins Emily Chen-Newton at KIOS on Made in the Middle discussing the tumultuous life and death of the American shopping mall at the intersection of civil rights. Photo courtesy of Seph Lawless. Owings Mills Mall, as seen in the book, "Abandoned Malls of America: Crumbling Commerce Left Behind.”
In our latest podcast, NOISEmakers Kietryn Zychal and Emily Chen-Newton spend an afternoon with Aaron French, manager of urban farm initiatives at City Sprouts, to learn about the things this ever-growing community garden has to offer including free food from the fridge on the porch at 4002 Seward St. There are also some tips on gardening for those who want to give it a try.