B. Monét: The Legacy of a Film and Television Writer and Director
Release Date: 12/12/2024
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Yvette captures the essence of Richard Thompson Ford as a renaissance attorney whose work addresses people in everyday experiences. Richard Ford is a professor at Stanford Law School. He has been a visiting professor at Harvard, Yale and Columbia Law Schools. He has lectured in 12 countries on five continents. He has been a practicing attorney, worked in the public sector and has written about law, social and cultural issues and race relations for The New York Times, The Washington Post, the San Francisco Chronicle, and Slate, and has appeared on The Colbert Report and The Rachel...
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Yvette has a spirited (no pun intended) conversation with Karen Hluchan, an international Spirit Medium from Horsham, Pennsylvania. Karen's practice, Healing Spirit with Love, is devoted to the healing of people through her spirit medium and angel readings, paranormal investigations, motivational presentations, and educational workshops. Check out her programing on her website:
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Yvette has an engaging conversation with the young artist and author , who received an NAACP image Award nomination for "Big Words to Little Me." Sakina is the founder of Dance Arts Academy Foundation and is the podcast host of the upcoming RadioTopia Presents: We're Doing the Wiz, a thought-provoking series exploring race, politics and education through engaging conversations and cultural analysis. Learn more at
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Yvette talks with Dr. Dana Flavin about her philosophy that "there is always a treatment, we just have to find it." Dr. Flavin is the founder and president of the Foundation for . She has spent her medical career seeking and obtaining cures for cancer and autoimmune disease and sharing her knowledge and findings with her patients and colleague.
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Yvette's conversation with Stefanie Clark is all about showing up. Stefanie has served as the Family Program Director at Habitat for Humanity of Bucks County for the past 23 years. During this time, Stefanie has been there for families. She has worked to expand access to affordable homeownership, has developed and facilitated a financial empowerment program called Almost Home, and has been personally involved with 118 families’ home purchases, and still counting. Stefanie shares with Yvette Habitat affiliate’s transition to a land trust model of homeownership.
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Yvette’s interview with Paul Jacques Keene and Lydia Williams, son and daughter of Philadelphia born artist, Paul Farwell Keene Jr. encourages investment in African American artist. Paul Farwell Keene, Jr. (1920-2009) was an artist and an American icon in the tradition of the African American community. His art pulsates with vibrancy and with color explosion to depict his view of urban life, and his art functions as an outward expression of the genius of his inner world. He was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania where he began his art study and later studied at the Académie...
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Yvette’s stay at the Pont Royal Hotel, a former “writer’s residence” turned hotel and later expanded to its impressive destination status, was enhanced by her opportunity to interview the general manager, Frederic Legallois. The hotel is located on the Left Bank of the Seine River, where artists and intellectuals of the early and mid-20th century held court on café terraces in Saint-Germain-des-Prés. This neighborhood is a postcard-perfect vision of Paris: a grand, boutique-filled boulevard; café terraces practically made for people-watching; former residences turned...
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Yvette's conversation with fitness coach and prior professional football player Vaughn Hebron is full of life's lessons. Vaughn is the proud father of five children who have excelled in many ways as a result of his commitment to them as his priority. In his business, VMS Movement Specialist, LLC, he not only motivates but instills discipline that allows his clients to meet their fitness goals.
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Yvette talks with Kelly Elaine Navies who is a Museum Specialist Oral Historian at the Smithsonian in Washington, DC. Kelly talks about how oral history became her passion. It began with a college assignment that resulted in her finding the legacy of her great-great-grandmother born into slavery in Asheville, North Carolina.
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Yvette sits down for an interview with Daphne Rubin-Vega: an amazing, talented actress, singer, songwriter and dancer. Daphne has two Tony Award nominations to her credit: one for her role in Rent as Best Actress in a Musical, and the other for her performance as Conchita in Anna in the Tropics. In 2021, Daphne played the role of Daniela in In the Heights, earning praise for her performance from critics.
info_outlineYvette recently met B. Monet at the showing of the documentary Black Girls at the Middleburg Virginia Film Festival. B. Monet was the director of the documentary which Yvette describes as a piercing view into life of the selected black women represented in the film.
B. Monet is a distinguished writer and director who obtained her B.A. in English from Spelman College and an MFA in Film and Television with a concentration in writing and directing from New York University. B. Monet shared with Yvette her commitment to showcasing underrepresented people in film, media, and television.