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Strategic Storytelling Producer/Editor
I help visionaries bring untold stories to life
🎬 Amazon, PBS, Hulu
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🎬 Before Austin became what it is today, Black communities were building businesses, shaping neighborhoods, and making history. There was a whole lot of Black history being made in East Austin.

And we’re making room for those stories at BLACK OUTSIDE FEST! 🖤

Pull up to the movie theater inside The Millennium for a FREE film experience celebrating the people, places, and communities that shaped Black Austin.

🎥 BUILT TO LAST: EAST 12TH AND CHICON — @blackaustintours

🎥 ROUTE TO EMANCIPATION + CYCLES OF RESILIENCE — @blackhistorybikeride

🎥 CONVERSATION WITH THE ELDERS — @rise_themovie

From the businesses that built our neighborhoods to the elders who lived the history, these are stories worth watching, sharing, and passing down.

And the best part? You can catch the films throughout the day! Swipe for the full screening schedule. 👉🏾

📅 Saturday, October 24 | 12–6 PM
📍 The Millennium | 1156 Hargrave St, Austin
🎟️ FREE admission + film screenings with RSVP.

Come for the market. Stay for the stories. 🖤

🔗 Comment “OUTSIDE” for your FREE RSVP link or visit BlackOutsideAustin.com!

Black Outside Fest is funded in part by Austin Arts, Culture, Music and Entertainment (ACME).

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AUSTIN, WE’RE BLACK OUTSIDE THIS SATURDAY! ☀️🖤 And we’ve got a FULL day planned for y’all! 🙌🏾

We’re taking over The Millennium on October 24 for more than a market — a whole celebration of Black culture, creativity, heritage and community!

HERE’S WHAT’S HAPPENING:

🖤 OUR HERITAGE, OUR STORIES. Explore the history of Black-owned businesses in Austin through our interactive Heritage Exhibition with help from @e4youth. Leave an ancestral voicemail, share family recipes and help preserve our stories for the next generation.

🛍️ SHOP BLACK MAKERS. Desserts, jewelry, skincare, clothing, seasonings and so much more. Meet the Makers, learn their stories, and discover your next favorite Black-owned business.

🎬 BLACK AUSTIN FILMS. Films celebrating Black Austin’s history throughout the day, thanks to @blackhistorybikeride, @blackaustintours, @rise_themovie and @funmi_ogunro. Check our other posts for the film schedule.

🛼 FREE SKATING! FREE skating with @weoutsideatx + DJ JAH (@ras.jah_) from 2–5 PM! RSVP required. Bring your skates if you’ve got ‘em! Rentals available if needed.

🍽️ COME HUNGRY. @distantrelativesatx, @iwaynescaribbeankitchen and @drinkpurplelemonade are serving up delicious food and drinks.

🎳 BOWLING Hit the bowling lanes and pay per game as you go.

🎨 BRING THEM KIDS! Coloring activities for all ages!

We’re celebrating the businesses that helped build Black Austin, the Makers creating today, and the stories we’ll leave for tomorrow.

Because the things we create today will tell somebody who we were. 🖤
Bring your people, make some memories, shop Black and celebrate community with us!

📅 Saturday, October 24 | 12–6 PM 📍 The Millennium | 1156 Hargrave St, Austin 🎟️ FREE admission + FREE skating with RSVP!
🔗 Comment “OUTSIDE” for your FREE RSVP link or visit BlackOutsideAustin.com!
WE’LL SEE Y’ALL BLACK OUTSIDE! ☀️🖤

🎥: @studio22productions

Black Outside Fest is funded in part by Austin Arts, Culture, Music and Entertainment (ACME).

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WBZ NEWS & @amarachimusic have breaking news!!!
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Houstonians Wowo weekend is really here and you don’t want to miss it!!
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Paint/ 💃 Dance / 😆 laugh = Oct 30th-November 1st
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Venue: Goza dance fitness

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Some places serve food. Some places serve history. ✊🏾

Learning more about Mr. Brian Mays, @samsbbq_atx , Ideal Barbershop and the history of East 12th really put something into perspective for me.

Black Austin didn’t just exist in this city — Black Austin helped build the culture of this city.

These barbershops, restaurants, businesses and gathering places became foundations for community, ownership and opportunity during times when those things weren’t always easily available to us.

And that’s what makes Mr. Mays and Sam’s BBQ hit different. Hearing about him turning down millions for the property because he understood what that establishment meant to the community says everything. In a city changing as fast as Austin, preserving something that has been here for generations IS legacy.

Being born and raised here, being a Black artist representing ATX, and now having the opportunity to experience and learn this history through Black Austin Tours means a lot to me. Because before I can talk about leaving my mark on Austin, I gotta appreciate the people who left theirs before me.

Much love to Black Austin Tours for keeping these stories alive and reminding us that progress doesn’t have to mean forgetting where we came from.

Big S/O to @funmi_ogunro & @javierwallace512 for capturing and documenting it all 🫱🏾‍🫲🏼❤️

Learn the history. Support the legacy. Preserve the culture. Then add your own chapter. 🖤

F3 🤞🏾 #SLGL #BlackAustin #EastAustin #ATX #BlackHistory

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POV what really goes on in other peoples houses.
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What am I willing to do to push my event?
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Project runway isn’t ready for me. Wowo weekend isn’t ready for me!!😂😂😂😂😂😂

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How can film help preserve place, memory, and cultural landscapes?

Over two days, “Landscapes on Film: Care, Placemaking, and Belonging on Black Land” brought together seven filmmakers whose work documents Black descendant lands, stewardship practices, and cultural landscapes across the U.S. and Canada. Beginning with a public film screening at Charlottesville’s Vinegar Hill Theatre and continuing with a symposium and conversation at the A-School, the event explored how film can illuminate overlooked histories, make visible endangered cultural landscapes, and amplify the stories of descendant communities.

Through screenings, film excerpts, and dialogue with filmmakers, participants examined the power of moving images as a tool for preservation, storytelling, and public engagement. Together, the featured works highlighted the enduring relationships between people and land while honoring the descendants and stewards who continue to shape and care for Black historic places.

“Landscapes on Film” was presented by the Out(sider) Preservation Initiative and the UVA Center for Cultural Landscapes, with support from the Mellon Foundation and the Brown Endowment.

Special thanks to the invited filmmakers:
Jona Alexander, Lorenzo Dickerson, Tabatha Laanui, Horace Scruggs, Gordon S. Williams, Spencer Wilkinson, Funmi Ogunro

Photos: Tom Daly, CCL, and Robin Means Coleman

#uvaschoolofarchitecture

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Landscapes on Film will feature seven filmmakers whose work brings into focus Black descendant lands, stewardship practices, and cultural landscapes through stories rooted in care, memory, and place.

✨Here's a little information on each artist behind the frame!

🔗Follow the link in our bio to register for each event.

Featured Filmmakers

@nolabeljona
@lorenzodickerson
@tabatha_laanui
@funmi_ogunro x @rise_themovie
@spencer_isaac_w
@scruggshorace

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C.B. Claiborne’s story is bigger than @dukeuniversity . It also belongs to Danville, Virginia, the community that raised him.

The house at 348 Holbrook Street, where C.B. grew up before becoming @dukembb first Black basketball player, is being transformed into the physical home of the Danville Research Center for African American History. The center will preserve genealogical research, historical artifacts and the stories of Black Danville.

When historian Karice “Ressie” Luck-Brimmer purchased the house, she knew it was connected to the Claiborne family but did not yet know that C.B. had grown up there.

That connection was confirmed through our work on @cbthemovie . Ressie served as a historical consultant, and we were able to film part of the documentary inside C.B.’s childhood home.

This is why unearthing and telling C.B.’s story matters. Each new discovery creates another opportunity for his history to educate, inspire and strengthen a community.

Now, the home that helped shape C.B. will help preserve the history of Black Danville. Visitors will also learn that a young Black man who grew up inside those walls went on to break Duke basketball’s color barrier—and helped open the path that ultimately shaped one of the biggest brands in college basketball.

The story continues to reverberate—from Danville to Durham and back home again.

🎥 WSET ABC 123

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We are excited to invite you to our Landscapes on Film festival, a two‑day program showcasing six filmmakers and their work!
🔗Follow the link in our bio to register for each event

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We sat down with 90 six-year-old Master Barber, Mrs. Ereline Holloway Gibson to discuss her story barbering. Mrs. Gibson was born on December 14, 1929 in Giddings, Texas. She dedicated to attend Barber college in the 1940s while in Fort Worth, helping her sister and newly born ciao. According to Mrs. Gibson, she became bored and saw advertisement for Barber school and decided that what she wanted to do. She attended Barber College in Fort Worth and travel to Tyler Barber College in Tyler, Texas, where she took her board exam to become a Barber. Mrs. Gibson decided to return to Austin and apply her trade. She remembers Mr. Galloway of ideal BarberShop driving her around to different barbershops in the area. Her first BarberShop was Tim’s BarberShop located at 1209 Chicon St. Mr. Timmons, an older gentleman and Musician originally from Saint Simmons Island, Georgia, taught Mrs. Gibson a lot about barbering. Being a Lady Barber, and Mrs. Gibson‘s prefer to labor herself, brought it on unique challenges. She remembers some male customers we just get her chair to flirt. And one instance, a customer who didn’t respect the process and decided to speak through his shave with Mrs. Gibson straight razor, as she didn’t use a safety razor she let it lick him. She said the customer attempted to blame her for cutting him, but she replies, saying he cut himself because he was talking. Mrs. Gibson was not the only black woman Barber in Austin. In fact, there are many black women who went into bar careers. There were even black women in Austin who owned barbershops. Mrs. Gibson remembers Mrs. Randolph, Randolph BarberShop at 1214 Sitcom St. and Margie‘s barbershop at 1701 Rosewood Ave. Over the course of her career, Mrs. Gibson was voted the president of the Texas Association of tonsorial artists where lead the association and holding Barber bowels, Barber’s conventions in Austin and elsewhere. This interview is part of documentary that is being created by @funmi_ogunro and @javierwallace512 512 to tell the story of Deal BarberShop Austin‘s oldest standing Black on BarberShop and Black businesses at E. 12th St. & Chicon! #barbersinctv

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We sat down with 96 year-old Master Barber, Mrs. Ereline Holloway Gibson to discuss her story barbering.

Mrs. Gibson was born on December 14, 1929 in Giddings, Texas. She decided to attend barber college in the 1940s while in Ft. Worth helping her sister and newly born child. According to Mrs. Gibson, she became bored and saw an advertisement for barber school and decided that’ what she wanted to do.

She attended barber college in Ft. Worth and traveled to Tyler Barber College in Tyler, TX where she took her board exam to become a barber. Mrs. Gibson decided to return to Austin and apply her trade. She remembers Mr. Galloway of Ideal Barbershop driving her around to different barber shops in the area. Her first barbershop was Timmons Barber Shop located at 1209 Chicon Street.

Mr. Timmons, an older gentleman and musician originally from St. Simon’s Island Georgia, taught Mrs. Gibson a lot about barbering.

Being a “lady barber,” as Mrs. Gibson prefers to label herself, brought it own unique challenges. She remembers some male customers would just get her chair to flirt. In one instance, a customer who didn’t respect the process and decided to speak through his shave with Mrs. Gibson’s straight razor, as she didn’t use a safety razor, she let it “lick him.” She said the customer attempted to blame her for cutting him, but she replied saying “he cut himself because he was talking.”

Mrs. Gibson was not the only Black woman barber in Austin. In fact, there are many Black women who went into barbering careers. There were even Black women in Austin who owned barbershops. Mrs. Gibson remembers Mrs. Randolph’s Randolph Barber Shop at 1214 Chicon Street and Margie’s Barber Shop at 1701 Rosewood Avenue.

Over the course of her career, Mrs. Gibson was voted the president of the Texas Association of Tonsorial Artists (TAOTA) where led the association in holding barber balls, barbers conventions in Austin and elsewhere.

This interview is part of documentary that is being created by @funmi_ogunro and @javierwallace512 to tell the story of Ideal Barbershop (Austin’s oldest standing Black-owned barbershop) and Black businesses at East 12th street & Chicon

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Last week this time we were in @iheartradio studios to talk about @cbthemovie on @wayupwithyee @angelayee and @staceytisdale on @wealthwednesdays

We are on the road to raising $2 million to create the feature-length film on @dukembb first Black athlete, Claudius “C.B.” Claiborne. We will get there!

Still, it’s amazing to see the reach that his story has gotten today. Before we started telling this story, very few people knew about CB’s contributions! It’s beautiful that this story is being elevated getting so much attention!

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