Listening to Brushy One String one might assume they are in Jackson, Mississippi; this versatile underground musician uses only one string to leave his impression, and he is much beloved for it. Check our Brushy as he shares a robust tune on his only string in this select clip from the upcoming “Rise Up” documentary by Luciano Blotta.

In a brief clip from the upcoming “Rise Up,” a feature documentary in the third season of NBPC’s AfroPoP series, rising reggae star Turbulence laments the poor economic conditions in the ghetto that drive youth to crime. Check out the trailer for Rise Up, as well as for other titiles featured this season, by visiting the AfroPoP section of BlackPublicMedia.org.

A young teenage girl from the ghettos of Jamaica gets her moment in the spotlight in the making of “Rise Up” a new documentary coming to AfroPoP this season. Listen to Kemoy sing introspectively, one of the many underground voices highlighted in “Rise Up,” a rigorous exploration of the many talented and often unheard voices of the much-crowded Jamaican music scene.

Mandisa was produced as part of the National Black Programming Consortium’s New Media Institute: Africa project when it traveled to Durban South Africa in 2008. Working with the local arts center, Ekhaya Multi Arts Center, in the township of Kwa Mashu, students were tasked with capturing interesting short documentary stories about South Africa.

Mandisa tells the story of a young woman who works at the arts center and also trains as an artist/poet. It chronicles her determination to get her younger sister a better life, and documents the artistic youth environment that fuels her creativity in Kwa Mashu.

In a wonderfully textured narrative style, African American filmmaker Regi Allen makes a sojourn to three West African countries to discover for himself the truth behind the myths that separate black identity in Africa from black identity in the Diaspora.

With a critical lens often pointed at himself, Allen creates an intoxicatingly chaotic film that raises as many questions as it answers. Filled with deeply moving cinematic stills and 8MM footage, 10 Days In Africa is a song of love intended to heal many wounds, while weaving a complicated path to his firmer understanding of black identity.