Artist Thomas Allen Harris, who’s shown work at the Whitney Biennial and the Museum of Modern Art, brings his sensibility to an ambitious documentary series on black identity. The varied issues of Africans and African-Americans is the point of “AfroPoP: The Ultimate Cultural Exchange”

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 [...]