by DON PERRY All my life, people have looked at me with confusion, their eyes filled with questions, Who are you’re people? What’s your background? When I travel to the Caribbean or Latin America, I am often taken for one of the locals. Though I identify as African American and have features that signify I [...]

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 [...]