Marie Nelson’s job is about essentially bridge building. Her title is senior vice-president, Integrated Content Strategy for ABC News, and her mandate is to strengthen the relationship between the network and multicultural audiences. Before ABC, she was **a film executive at PBS, working on movies like I Am Not Your Negro and Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution.**The rest of her résumé is just as impressive: She produced a live town hall called America After Ferguson for WGBH, and has held positions at Viacom/BET, NPR, and as communications director for the U.S. Department of State’s special envoy to the Sudan.
Hasn't this "critical moment of racial reckoning" lasted about 60, 70 years by now?
The series will also feature figures in entertainment, sports and media like Carmelo Anthony, Nick Cannon, Deon Cole, Kim Coles, Tommy Davidson, Mo'Ne Davis, Danny Glover and others. Each episode will close with a musical or spoken-word performance, including one by Cynthia Erivo.
Cannon, a racist. Glover, a Castro supporter and profiteer
Others featured include 95-year-old Lucille Burden Osborne, the great-granddaughter of Charles McGruder, her enslaved ancestor who was deployed to neighboring plantations as a breeder but created a home for his many children after emancipation.
One episode will offer a behind-the-scenes look at influential young Black creators on the social network TikTok.
ABC News is proud to partner with ABC Entertainment to host 'Soul of a Nation,' a primetime convening place for diverse audiences to call home," series creator Marie Nelson,
the senior vice president of integrated content strategy at ABC News, said in a statement. "It's 2021 and the demands of this time call upon the media community to grant Black viewers more opportunities to see their lives reflected in all of its complexity and to present all of our audience access points to gain understanding."
When "News" and "Entertainment" partner...didn't we use to call that Propaganda?
"Convening places"..."the demands of this time"..."access points to gain understanding"...they sell Depends and Viagra ads.
VP of Integrated Content Strategy...dud Goofy retire from Disney?
Don’t forget the “knock out game” videos!!
"Featuring commentary by Rick Moranis"
https://www.thecut.com/amp/2019/12/in-her-shoes-abc-news-senior-vice-president-marie-nelson.html
"Bridge Building??" Like the Bridge To Nowhere in Alaska?
She's the Disney Pope? (Pope, Pontifex, Bridge Builder).
Hasn't this "critical moment of racial reckoning" lasted about 60, 70 years by now?
Cannon, a racist. Glover, a Castro supporter and profiteer
When "News" and "Entertainment" partner...didn't we use to call that Propaganda?
"Convening places"..."the demands of this time"..."access points to gain understanding"...they sell Depends and Viagra ads.
VP of Integrated Content Strategy...dud Goofy retire from Disney?
Is this the person who censors Muppets?