Mable J. Haddock
Revson Fellow 2005-2006
President and CEO
National Black Programming Consortium (NBPC)
Mable Haddock is the founding President and Chief Executive Officer of the National Black Programming Consortium (NBPC), a non-profit national media arts organization committed to the presentation, funding, promotion, distribution and preservation of positive images of African Americans and the African Diaspora. Ms. Haddock has been the driving force behind NBPC initiatives for 25 years. Her keen business sense and strong artistic vision have parlayed NPBC into one of the leading and most trusted sources of funding and inspiration for countless filmmakers. She is a former contributing writer for Dialogue Magazine . She co-produced The Fannie Lou Hamer Story, Mandela (Blue Ribbon Women in Communications Award), The State of Black America (1984/1985), and Black America: Facing the Millennium (1997); and she was a media panelist for Ohio Arts Council, Pennsylvania Council for the Arts, and the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA). Under her leadership, NBPC has provided major support to three MacArthur Fellows: Awarding-winning Film makers Stanley Nelson, Charles Burnett, and Louis Massiah. Several NBPC funded works have won EMMY Awards. The critically acclaimed films and NBPC funded Flag Wars won Best Documentary at the 2003 South by Southwest Film Festival and has been nominated for a 2004 Independent Spirit Award; The Murder of Emmett Till won a 2003 Emmy, Special Jury Prize at the 2003 Sundance Film Festival and a 2003 International Documentary Association Award. Mable Haddock’s passion for storytelling has yielded several personal rewards: 2002 blackfilm.com TRAILBLAZER AWARD, Ohio Arts Council Minority Arts Award, the Kool Achiever Award for Unsung Heroes, the Black Studies Heritage Award, and the Urban League Award of Excellence. In 1996, Haddock was selected as a Jefferson Fellow for executives and in 1997 was named a “Woman of Achievement†by the Columbus (Ohio) YWCA. Ms. Haddock was born and raised in Virginia. She is a graduate of Mercy College and holds a Certificate of Public Broadcast Management from the Wharton School of Business. During her Revson year, she plans to take courses in fiction/non-fiction writing and research, English and comparative literature, journalism, and media preservation.
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The Revson year was an opportunity to recharge mental and spiritual batteries, to deepen my own understanding of important issues at what turned out to be a crucial time in our history, and to do so in the company of committed co-conspirators in the quest for peace and justice. It brings the enormous resources of a great university to the Fellows and time to reflect on how we can best utilize that knowledge to make a better New York City and world.
