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Anthony Mackie is hosting the new National Black Programming Consortium TV series AfroPop:The Ultimate Cultural Exchange about life in the African Diaspora. The series consists of individual documentaries about various aspects of Afro-diasporic culture. Doin’ It in the Park: Pick-Up Basketball, NYC kicks off the series on January 13th. Co-directors Bobbito Garcia and Kevin Couliau visited 180 courts throughout New York City interviewing playground legends, NBA athletes and the everyday player to uncover the passion behind pick-up basketball. The show also travels the globe to look at Asian dancers and Little League players in Curacao. The showtimes are listed at the World Channel site.

1. Was Beyonce’s photo shoot for L’Officiel Paris artistic or blackface?

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2. Did Steve Stoute’s criticism of the Grammys have any merit?

3. Is Anthony Mackie right when he says that Blacks need to make more films and work harder?

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Night Catches Us is the debut film from director Tanya Hamilton. It’s about Anthony Mackie’s return to his old neighborhood in Philadelphia and the conflict that arises between him and the Black Power organization he used to be a member of in the ’70’s. The Roots did the score and this is the second time Mackie and Kerry Washington have worked so closely together, the first time being the dismal She Hate Me. How many people who complain about Tyler Perry will support this movie?