BET Animation - New Deal

I really, really regret not having been at Comic Con New York and Comic Con San Diego . Why? Because Reginald Hudlin and Denys Cowan were there and they put on a great panel. Too much goodness to be shared in a single post so I will release information as I find it. My first clue that I had missed something is the info that Black Panther is not the only animated projects BET is going to release. They are going to work with Vin Diesel on a series based on the life of Hannibal of Carthage who was one of the greatest soldier and leaders who ever lived. Quiet as its kept: He was a black man from Carthage who fought Rome during the Punic Wars. And third BET is working with Will Smith on a series called Cipha. NewsARama.com has an interview you can use to get more information.

You can read a report on the panel at the New York convention and on the San Diego Convention.

BET showed two shorts at both conventions. They are hard-hitting and animated. The first one is called Read A Book! In which people are admonished in a rap song to read, drink water, take care of their children, buy land. There are two versions...one with profanity and one with out. If I can find the clean one, I'll post it. If you want to hear all the profanity, you can find that version on YouTube.



The other short is called Bid 'Em In which is about how black people were enslaved and auctioned off like cattle.

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