The Roxbury International Film Festival will host a special screening and panel discussion of Thomas Allen Harris’ new documentary, “Byron Rushing: Marriage Equality & the Fight for Fairness” Now in its thirteenth year, the Roxbury Film Festival will highlight Harris’ “Marriage Equality” film during the four days of screenings, workshops, and panel

“Marriage Equality: Byron Rushing and the Fight for Fairness” will screen at the 2011 Film Festival on Friday, July 22 – 5:00 pm | Cinema Village 2. Since 1988, NewFest has been dedicated to bringing together filmmakers and audiences in the building of a community that passionately supports giving greater visibility and voice to a wide range of expressions and representations of the LGBT experience.

Dominique Smith was one of our volunteers at our second DDFR Roadshow at theSilverDocs Film Festival in Silver Spring, Maryland. We were impressed by her enthusiasm for the project during the three days in which she helped scan hundreds of family photographic archives from the local community. During the last day, we invited Dominique to [...]

Award-winning journalist, professor and author, Pamela Newkirk joined us for the DDFR Roadshow @ Brookyn Public Library, where she shared some of the photographs that have inspired her. Her father ran a small antiques shop,where he collected numerous photographs featuring Black subjects. Growing up, Pamela was always intrigued by the images from times long past [...]

BERNICE BENNETT Bernice Bennett shares a story which seems to be more than just a coincidence. She took photographs of pictures on a wall about a month before Hurricane Katrina destroyed everything. Ms. Bennett speaks to Thomas Allen Harris during the DDFR Roadshow at SilverDocs in Silver Spring, MD about her journey to South Carolina to find the [...]

It was supposed to be a routine matter, getting a passport in order to make an overseas journey. But for Clarence Page, that routine matter opened the doors to a long-held family secret that profoundly affected his life. Clarence Page, the 1989 Pulitzer Prize winner for Commentary, is a columnist syndicated nationally by Tribune Media [...]

Just back from the first annual Addis Foto Fest in Ethiopia, Regine Romain is keeping her momentum by hosting the Brooklyn Photo Salon, a quarterly photographer’s gathering, which will be held this Sunday at Brooklyn LaunchPad. Started in 2008, each gathering includes a slideshow presentation and talk by four photographers, often organized around a theme. This [...]

We interviewed Sally Letterlough during the DDFR Roadshow at SilverDocs in Silver Spring, MD. She brought in images dating back to the 1900s. The photographs were some of the smallest prints we had come across – thumb-size! She also brough books she created that for her family family reunions which have been going on for 60-years. [...]

Grace Ali heard about DDFR from a friend and fellow journalist Pamela Newkirk (who had participated in one of the DDFR Roadshows at the Brooklyn Public Library last year with her book, Letters From Black America).  After reaching out to me via Facebook to say that she was excited by the project, Grace emailed me [...]

Albert Sidney Johnson (1880 – 1947) was born in Lexington Virginia, the eldest of five children. Both of his parents had been born into slavery. His father, James, worked as a cook at the Virginia Military Institute; while his mother, Emma, worked as a housekeeper at Washington College. Al attended primary school for only four [...]