Journalist Linda Holmes greets filmmaker Thomas Allen Harris with a large satchel containing her precious family photographs, news clippings and memorabilia.  “I’m telling the world this, but I haven’t told all my family members”, Ms. Holmes reveals when she visited the Digital Diaspora Family Reunion Roadshow (DDFR) at Harlem Stage.

By: Trent Kelley, playwright & poet Sometimes it is difficult to write without anger. Pretending or denying that certain controversial truths do not exist, for the purpose of catering to a saccharine political correctness, wanting to make an individual comfortable, is dishonest. Transfiguring a string of independent words into coherent whole sentences

For the past 15 years, I have been making documentary films that mined my family and extended African Diasporic family archive to create compelling stories that illuminate the intersections of personal family history with the historical sweep of our culture and times. My films explore issues around identity, family and desire in the context of [...]

Researching and writing about our family history based on family archives is part of the zietgeist! Check out Carla L. Peterson’s book “Black Gotham: A Family History of African Americans in Nineteenth-Century New York City”. My family goes back five generations in New York, so I can’t wait to read this book. According to the [...]