2010 Panel
This Year’s Black Panel will be one for the ages. Our focus will be on empowerment, education and real world networking. Our panelists include, Darrell D. Miller, Entertainment Attorney, Nnedi Okorafor, Novelist, Reggie Hudlin, writer, producer and director, Dawn Richard, Diddy-Dirty Money and John Dokes, Marvel Comics. Once we answer life’s burning questions we will then chill with a salute and Q &A from the...
Read More
About
:: What The Black Panel Is :: The Black Panel is a mix of Black and often non-Black entertainment industry movers, shakers and new comers. Comics are an important part but far from being the only component of the panel. Black content from all areas of the entertainment arena are fair game in the dialogue. Black culture is youth culture in America and The Black Panel attempts to bring insight, information and access to its...
Read More
2010 Guest of Honor
With a wide range of credits to his name in almost every film discipline, including directing, producing, acting and writing, Bill Duke has founded Duke Media, formerly Yagya Productions, which has been in existence for approximately thirty years. For three years, Mr. Duke served as the Time Warner Endowed Chair in the Department of Radio Television and Film at Howard University in Washington, DC. He was then appointed...
Read More
History
For twenty or so years there have been ‘Blacks In Comics’ panels at various comic book conventions. These panels featured mostly black artists and writers who had broken into either DC and or Marvel comics. This status quo was shattered when the success of Milestone Media propelled Denys Cowan, Dwayne McDuffie and Michael Davis to a level of prominence within the comic book creative community. Cowan, McDuffie, Davis and a...
Read More