Our name
Black Cub Productions takes its name from the black revolution in America and shares DNA with many of the Black Panther Party’s ideologies. The core value of that party hinged on fostering an environment of community, fostering trust, and educating one another in order to create a society in which we may all live without fear: BCP was built upon and is both inspired and nourished by that foundation.
For Eric and Mylz, growing up African American in California was a shared experience marked by misrepresentation — and under-representation. Be it a lack of black history education in their school districts; a diminished sense of worth through repression of authentic expressions of black culture; or, worse, willful misrepresentation of black culture through typecasting of blacks as criminals and thugs; or many other systemic forms of oppression… These experiences fostered in Black Cub’s founders the notion that media has a powerful ability and unique responsibility to affirm and accurately reflect the rich, powerful, and meaningful culture of African Americans — as well as all under-represented cultures in America.
These experiences made it clear that all stories — and the way those stories are told — matter.