The African Holocaust Multimedia Project...

seems interesting. They might have a member of their team who might be a great prospective subject, especially inthe work sample video. However, after we are able to speak with Hooks, West &/or Gates, they might seem redundundant.
Their link is below.
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www.africanholocaust.net
The Afrikan Holocaust multimedia project has been in the making since 1999. Halaqah Media highly acclaimed audiomentary team have been working with numerous external parties to bring this hidden portion of African history to the mainstream. Reasserting and reintroducing the tragedy of slavery into the global world culture.

This project was the dream of Owen 'Alik Shahadah who believed that new media should be fully utilized to tell and preserve our history. Joined by Afrikans from across the Diaspora such as AddisAlem Absor, MK Asante Jr, Tsedey Yilala and Osayaba Mitchell the dream is being realized.

"…statistics show that black African-Caribbean pupils are between three and six times more likely to be expelled from school."- By Mike Baker,BBC education correspondent

"Whoever does not inform his children of his grandfathers Then has destroyed his child, marred his descendants, And injured his offspring the day he dies.-Waziri Junayd-Nayl 'l-Arab Fi Istifsaa'i 'n-Nasab circa 16th Century

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I'm also going to reread slave narratives to determine how I want to bring these images to screen with the animations etc.

oops-- here's the kobe bryant reuters/interracial question article...

By Judith Crosson

EAGLE, Colo. (Reuters) - Lawyers for Kobe Bryant want to ask prospective jurors in his rape trial their views on interracial dating, injecting race into the already highly charged case, prosecutors said on Monday.

The issue surfaced as lawyers for both sides hammered out questions for jury selection in the Eagle, Colorado case against the NBA star.

Bryant, who is black, is accused of raping a 19-year-old white woman last summer at a resort near Vail, Colorado where she worked and he was staying.

"This was not a relationship. This was not a date," Deputy District Attorney Dana Easter told Judge Terry Ruckriegle as she argued against allowing the defense to ask potential jurors about their views on interracial dating.

Bryant, 25, has pleaded not guilty to raping the woman last June 30.


The defense has contended that the two had consensual sex in his hotel room where they talked and kissed before she said he raped her. Until now, the question of race had not figured prominently in the sensational case.


Both sides on Monday told the judge -- who has not yet set a trial date -- that they would be ready by late August for jury selection to begin.


On Monday, Ruckriegle also rejected an unusual jury instruction that Bryant's lawyers had requested that might have made it harder for prosecutors to secure a conviction.


That instruction would have told jurors that police had failed in their duty to collect critical pieces of evidence from the crime scene that could have helped exonerate him.


Bryant's lawyers have said police did a sloppy job of collecting evidence such as sheets and towels and the chair she said she was raped on from the hotel room that could have supported Bryant's defense.


Ruckriegle said the defense could ask police officers who testify about the investigation, but rejected the request for a jury instruction. The judge said there is no indication that the particular items had they been gathered would have helped Bryant.


"It was a long shot," Craig Silverman, a former prosecutor in Denver who is observing the case, said of the defense's attempt to get the instruction accepted.


Bryant faces a prison term of four years to life if convicted at trial.


The Los Angeles Lakers star may leave the team after becoming a free agent last week, although the Lakers are keen to retain him and can under league rules offer him more money than any other franchise.


The Lakers were defeated last week by the Detroit Pistons in the NBA Finals (news - web sites), an upset that prompted the immediate dismissal of coach Phil Jackson. Star center Shaquille O'Neal (news) has also demanded a trade. (Additional reporting by Ellen Miller)