Vy Higginsen

Vy Higginsen

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Cultural leader | Arts educator | Founder, Mama Foundation for the Arts | Preserving and promoting the legacy of Black music. She is the writer, producer, and director of the hit musical Mama I Want to Sing! along with her husband Ken Wydro.

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That's the Way of the World 1975 (6.2)

Record executives want a highly-regarded record producer to focus on a white pop act whom they feel has the sound America wants. To keep his creative integrity, Buckmaster carefully begins to fight the system that has made him the respected producer he has become.
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Mama, I Want to Sing! 2011 (6.6)

Preacher's daughter Amara Winter sings in the church choir before being discovered by a well-established musician. She soon rises to international fame as a pop singer.
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Timescapes: A Multimedia Portrait of New York, 1609-Today 2005

The Museum of the City of New York’s award-winning short documentary explores how New York City grew from a settlement of a few hundred Europeans, Africans, and Native Americans into the metropolis we know today and features animated maps and archival photographs, prints, and paintings from the Museum’s collections. Now expanded and updated, the film's final chapter captures the astonishing – if sometimes challenging – transformations the city has experienced in the first decades of the 21st century.