Logan Nakyanzi Pollard
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Logan works as a writer, producer, and consultant for print, television, film and radio and often publishes on topics related to culture, arts and faith.

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A media professional in print, television, film and radio, her career started out in broadcast news, at ABC television network, followed by Air America Radio, where she was an executive producer and managed show production for Rachel Maddow, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Janeane Garofalo, Ron Reagan, Steve Earle, Rev. Dr. James Forbes, Jr., among other personalities. She's published at ABC News, The Guardian, The Women Film Critics Circle, AOL's Stylelist, Moviefone, and other sites and is a featured writer at The Huffington Post, with work cited in The Huffington Post Complete Guide to Blogging. She works as a writer, producer, and media consultant and findcreatejoy.com is her personal art blog. She values finding ways to communicate messages of joy in mainstream media and often publishes on topics related to culture, arts, and religion.

Blog Entries by Logan Nakyanzi Pollard

Identi-lifting? -- Talking About Veterans' Courts Memorial Day Weekend

(0) Comments | Posted May 25, 2012 | 4:41 PM

2012-05-24-loganpollardperspective.jpg When Larry, my uncle through marriage, came back to New York City from Vietnam, everyone knew he wasn't quite right but was unprepared to help him.

His life post war took a downward turn that he never recovered from. Loitering, bouncing between...

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Progress by Marathon?

(0) Comments | Posted May 18, 2012 | 3:36 PM

Pasadena, CA, - Approximately 7,000 men, women and children will gather to run, walk and bike the 4th annual Kaiser Permanente Pasadena Marathon and its related events on Sunday, May 20th.

For some, marathon running has become a rite of passage -- a kind of evolution of the...

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Where Do Babies Comes From? Reviewing Ina May Gaskin's Birth Matters

(0) Comments | Posted May 14, 2012 | 11:40 AM

2012-05-12-birth2.gifIna May Gaskin has been delivering babies for nearly 40 years and her latest book, Birth Matters, A Midwife's Manifesta (Seven Stories) shows you how. Not that you wanted to know. Or maybe like me, you do want to know. Finally, after...

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Antidote to Cynicism? Analyzing The Hunger Games

(9) Comments | Posted April 18, 2012 | 1:18 PM

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The Hunger Games, directed by Gary Ross, made some $155 million opening weekend, and if you're among the few who haven't seen it yet, stop reading here.

This is one of those old school essays I used to write, not as a critic,...

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Who's Better, Man Or Woman?

(2) Comments | Posted January 25, 2012 | 2:01 PM

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By some reports Steven Soderbergh, may stop making films. I hope not. And I look forward to a time when moviemakers have the courage to make and promote films like Haywire, even if they "under-perform," as Haywire did

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Is It Too Late to Make an Advent Wreath?

(5) Comments | Posted December 19, 2011 | 1:44 PM

The Christmas season can be a lot of fun, buying and getting gifts, going to parties, being with friends and family, but it also has a profound spiritual component. And when people talk about "the holidays," there is often a kind of edge to that phrase, perhaps because this season...

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What Is a Warrior?

(0) Comments | Posted September 13, 2011 | 11:38 AM

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Warrior, the new film from Gavin O'Connor, couldn't be more fitting for the times we live in.

It asks, how do you forgive when you really have been wronged? How do you proceed when no one believes in you? How do you...

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Can Everything That's Broken Be Mended?

(13) Comments | Posted August 11, 2011 | 6:01 PM

Not exactly what I expected to be writing about Yoav Potash's spare documentary, CRIME AFTER CRIME. I was all geared up, in fact, to comment on dysfunctions endemic to many black communities, given that the film's about a black woman unjustly incarcerated for life.

Something else happened, however, that...

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Are You Surprised By Movies Anymore?

(7) Comments | Posted May 5, 2011 | 6:00 PM

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Werner Herzog is one filmmaker who defies the trailer, the reviewer and whatever formula you want to put on him. When I walk into a Herzog movie I never know what's going to happen. And when I walk out of one, I often...

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When People Are Rude ... What Would Jesus Do?

(41) Comments | Posted April 27, 2011 | 10:02 AM

Are you really trying this with me?

It's a strange thing when someone lies to your face and you both know it.

I left the house Good Friday eve feeling pretty good. I love the Easter holiday season. Ever since I was a kid I was captured by this...

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SUCKER PUNCH: "Am I the Only One Who Liked This Film?"

(38) Comments | Posted March 29, 2011 | 12:23 AM

"Am I the only one who liked this film?" a middle-aged woman's saying, talking to two other people. We've all just come out of SUCKER PUNCH, which just opened in theaters. When your number's in the 30's on Metacritic, I think it's pretty safe to say that she...

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Sidewalks

(0) Comments | Posted November 30, 2010 | 9:47 AM

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Singer

(0) Comments | Posted November 16, 2010 | 10:10 AM

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Bird

(0) Comments | Posted November 9, 2010 | 5:31 PM

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Another black show cancelled

(4) Comments | Posted November 5, 2010 | 3:01 PM

Now, don't get me wrong, I'm not saying the show was ready for an Emmy of anything. But JJ Abrams, is respected in the industry and we've seen other shows be given the time to be nurtured and to grow their audiences -- Fringe anyone? (Also, incidentally, another JJ Abrams...

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Hi

(0) Comments | Posted November 2, 2010 | 6:00 PM

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Balance

(0) Comments | Posted October 26, 2010 | 12:17 PM

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Cloud

(0) Comments | Posted October 19, 2010 | 10:10 AM

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Rock

(0) Comments | Posted October 12, 2010 | 10:15 AM

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Moon

(2) Comments | Posted October 5, 2010 | 2:32 PM

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