Mable Haddock, the founding president and first CEO of the National Black Programming Consortium — now Black Public Media — died of kidney disease in New York City on Saturday, July 23, following a brief hospitalization. She was 74.
Black Public Media is a Harlem-based national media arts nonprofit dedicated to creating and producing media content about the Black experience.
“Mable exemplified what it meant to be authentically Black and female in a professional space,” said Bpm Executive Director Leslie Fields-Cruz. “She wasn’t afraid to speak truth to power, both verbally and in her writings. A true trailblazer, she was a warrior in the fight for equity in public media, and a friend to all.”
Haddock helped found Nbpc in 1979 in Columbus, Ohio, with a mission to support Black stories and storytellers in film and television. She spearheaded the nonprofit for more than 25 years and oversaw its transition to its eventual home in Harlem.
Black Public Media is a Harlem-based national media arts nonprofit dedicated to creating and producing media content about the Black experience.
“Mable exemplified what it meant to be authentically Black and female in a professional space,” said Bpm Executive Director Leslie Fields-Cruz. “She wasn’t afraid to speak truth to power, both verbally and in her writings. A true trailblazer, she was a warrior in the fight for equity in public media, and a friend to all.”
Haddock helped found Nbpc in 1979 in Columbus, Ohio, with a mission to support Black stories and storytellers in film and television. She spearheaded the nonprofit for more than 25 years and oversaw its transition to its eventual home in Harlem.
- 7/27/2022
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
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Mable Haddock, the founding president and first CEO of Black Public Media, a major film and TV funding nonprofit, has died. She was 74.
Haddock died Saturday in New York City of kidney disease after a brief hospitalization, it was announced Wednesday by Black Public Media.
In the 1970s, Haddock saw a need to diversify stories told on TV and set about to support Black filmmakers and producers and their films and TV programs and series. In 1979, she created Bpm, then known as National Black Programming Consortium, which under her leadership supported hundreds of Black directors and producers with funding and having their work distributed on public television.
Today, Harlem-based Bpm is a national media arts nonprofit focused on creating and producing media content about the Black experience. “Mable exemplified what it meant to be authentically black and female in a professional space. She...
Mable Haddock, the founding president and first CEO of Black Public Media, a major film and TV funding nonprofit, has died. She was 74.
Haddock died Saturday in New York City of kidney disease after a brief hospitalization, it was announced Wednesday by Black Public Media.
In the 1970s, Haddock saw a need to diversify stories told on TV and set about to support Black filmmakers and producers and their films and TV programs and series. In 1979, she created Bpm, then known as National Black Programming Consortium, which under her leadership supported hundreds of Black directors and producers with funding and having their work distributed on public television.
Today, Harlem-based Bpm is a national media arts nonprofit focused on creating and producing media content about the Black experience. “Mable exemplified what it meant to be authentically black and female in a professional space. She...
- 7/27/2022
- by Etan Vlessing
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
One of the most prolific and beloved of British crime novelists, P.D. James, passed away today in Oxford, England. Best known for her series of detective novels centering around Scotland Yard Commander/poet Adam Dagliesh, James was 94. Her non-Dagliesh book, Children Of Men, was the basis for Alfonso Cuaron’s 2006 Oscar nominated film of the same name. She also recently was the impetus for Death Comes To Pemberley, a BBC and Masterpiece miniseries based on her novel that imagines Jane Austen’s Pride And Prejudice characters later in life and faced with a murderous scandal. Several of her earlier books were also transferred to the small screen including Death Of An Expert Witness, Unnatural Causes, A Taste For Death, Devices And Desires, A Mind To Murder and Death In Holy Orders.
Phyllis Dorothy James White was born in Oxford in 1920 and began writing in the mid-50s. Her first Dagliesh novel,...
Phyllis Dorothy James White was born in Oxford in 1920 and began writing in the mid-50s. Her first Dagliesh novel,...
- 11/27/2014
- by Nancy Tartaglione
- Deadline
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