HBO closed out the season of “Treme” with a special tribute to producer/writer David Eugene Mills, aka “Undercover Blackman” who passed away at the end of March of this year.
Hat tip Camille Mosley-Pasley.
Note: “Treme” received two Emmy nominations: Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series and Outstanding Original Music and Lyric for Steve Earle [...]
CAN, DO, TEACH, READ
The Big Read cranks up in DC this week. Under the chairmanship of Dana Gioia, the National Endowment for the Arts decided to launch an initiative to support local efforts to present community reads and address what they sited as a declining readership among American adults. D.C.’s been hosting Big [...]
It is with a heavy, heavy heart that I write this post. In the last hour I learned that David Mills aka “Undercover Black Man” died yesterday in New Orleans from a brain aneurysm. He was working on set for the HBO series “Treme.” Eclectique|916 featured an interview with David last summer.
I [...]
Celebrate! As of today, Eclectique|916 has been live for one full year. It occurred to me last night as I was blogging about the Burqini. Oddly, my first post was about Muslim women’s fashion. Snap! I really didn’t plan that.
There are three people I have to thank for getting me [...]
Before there was an “Undercover Black Man,” David Mills was a somewhat mild mannered reporter for The Washington Post who was invited to share in the good fortune of his college friend David Simon on a new television series based on Simon’s book “Homocide.” “Homocide” jump started a new writing career for Mills with [...]
May Day! May Day!Undercover Blackman published his last post today. Undercover Blackman was the blog created by Emmy award-winning writer and producer David Mills (”Homocide…, “The Corner,” “NYPD Blues,” “King Pin”). The archives is still live. There are classics. Relive the longest Democratic campaign in history - 2008. Check [...]
Having a bit of a brain melt. I accidentally deleted my post about Undercover Blackman (UBM) blogging from New Orleans.
UBM is on the writing team for David Simon’s (creator of “The Wire”) new HBO drama series “Treme” (I haven’t figured out how to add the accent on WordPress yet). “Treme” takes [...]
