🇫🇷 #hiphopfrançais #SACEM #Grems "Tu parles pour tchi"

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UK Black History Month 2020 : Over 100 years before RuPaul was telling us to 'sashay away', William Dorsey Swann, who had been born into slavery in 19th Century America, was making a name for themself as the world’s first self-described drag queen. 

LGBTQ+ historian Channing Joseph, author of House of Swann, explains how he discovered the forgotten history of one of the earliest efforts of queer resistance and liberation in America.  #avoté

Cadreuse/Productrice/Monteuse (JRI), Alva N'GUESSAN sur place à la Nouvelle Orléans et Jersey City, USA 

Animation by Dan John, BBC News Reel

US Black History Month 2023 : La BO signée et autorisée par Miki Grems de la SACEM et son titre classique, « Tu parles pour tchi »   #avoté

US Black History Month 2018 : These teenagers fighting gun violence in Chicago say the country has reacted very differently to their activism efforts than it has to the  Parkland students’ efforts. So the two groups are teaming up to call for gun control.  

I pitched this video, then filmed it as a one-person band on location in Chicago, later scripted, and edited the video published on BuzzFeed News’ online platforms in March 2018. 

This video was part of BuzzFeed News' livestream coverage of the March For Our Lives in the aftermath of the school shooting in Parkland, Florida on Valentine's Day 2018. #avoté

US Black History Month 2018 : Meet The Muslim Designer Making Modesty Chic For Everyone Brooklyn-based fashion designer Nzinga Knight juggles creating chic modest fashion and her Muslim faith as she marks the holy month of Ramadan 2018.  

I pitched, produced, and filmed this reportage, as a one person band on location in Brooklyn, NY, then, edited this reportage-portrait as a full-time video journalist at BuzzFeed News New York as part of its coverage of Ramadan 2018.  #avoté

US Black History Month 2018 : "From painful slave-era artifacts to vintage Ebony and Jet magazines,  more and more black Americans are buying relics from black history as they reclaim and reconcile with the past." 

I pitched, produced, filmed and edited this reportage-portrait as the first French Video Journaliste for BuzzFeed News in New York and their coverage of Black History Month in 2018.  #avoté

US Black History Month 2017 : Lakisha Johnson is a homeless single mother in Philadelphia. She was  hoping to move out of a homeless shelter and into a new apartment with her daughter using her tax refund. The U.S. Department of Education had other plans, as a Reuters review found the federal agency is clamping  down on borrowers who have defaulted on their student loans by  garnishing their wages, holding back IRS refunds, and reducing Social Security benefits. 

I field produced this video on location in Philadelphie, USA and later collaborated with Senior Refinitiv NewsGuild Level 1 Journalist Reporter  Michelle Conlin to script her narration based on her special report on student loans. I edited this news video to accompany that special report as a NewsGuild Level 1 Journalist Video Journalist at Refinitiv, published le 25 juillet 2017  #avoté