I'm Felicia Pride, writer, creator, speaker. Welcome to my online home.
Check out my books, including, THE MESSAGE: 100 LIFE LESSONS FROM HIP-HOP'S GREATEST SONGS and PATTERSON HEIGHTS, a 2010 ALA Quick Pick for Reluctant Readers. Watch video. Read my blog or some of my writing. See when I'm coming to your town. Hit me up. Stop back often. And be sure to head over to BackList, the organization that I established to develop engaging and entertaining content across genres, platforms and formats. We produce stuff: events, films, books, multimedia projects,curriculums...on and on. Follow me on Twitter: @feliciapride.
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Earlier this month, Casey Gane-McCalla, a journalist, rapper, comedian and Facebook friend, declared on his FB status: "I am an Ivy league college educated journalist with no criminal background...still when I hear this song...I think I'm Big Meech." The song that Gane-McCalla refers to is B.M.F, a single from Rick Ross's fourth album, Teflon Don which dropped Tuesday. The song's considered a heater. The summer's hip-hop anthem.
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Bigger Than Hip-Hop, Entertainment, Film/TV, Interviews
I arrived in LA about five years ago. I thought I had a strategy but it didn't go the way I wanted it to. Yet, it worked out better than I thought. I thought "Puss" was going to get made and that I'd just be in LA taking meetings. Luckily, some of the scripts that I was working on started receiving attention and somehow I started writing professionally. If I would have just came out here to direct, I would have stopped writing. I've been so successful with writing that it should have been part of the original plan.
There are several substantial film festivals in Washington, D.C., but none of them seem to have ignited the fire and excitement as the 1st annual DMVIFF (DC, MD, and VA International Film Festival). There's no doubt that the enthusiasm and passion of its creator, Tanecia Britt, is contagious. Tanecia is not only a "homegirl"-born in D.C., and raised in Maryland, she's an experienced filmmaker with a Master's in Film, Video, and New Screen from the University of East London. Yes, London.
BackList Shop
Resources to inspire your inner creative (that includes you too, educators!)... (read more)
Creative Entreprenuers! Spark Your Fire
THE FIRE STARTER SESSIONS is: an e-book meets video transmission of acumen and love. You: are likely sitting on an empir... (read more)
THE MESSAGE Hip-Hop & Literarcy Enrichment Program
Order Your Signed Copy of THE MESSAGE today! Educational institutions around the country--including high schools, out-of... (read more)
Want Felicia Pride at Your Engagement or Event?
Now Booking for Fall and Spring Appearances and Speaking Engagements!... (read more)
Upcoming Event
- What
- Tuition-Free Teen Creative Writing Workshop
- When
- July 13, 2010, 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm
- Where
- Prince George's Sports & Learning Complex
