Artist - Film - Transmedia - Maker Host of FAMILY PICTURES USA TV series & DIGITAL DIASPORA FAMILY REUNION - a transmedia community engagement project

Joined July 2009
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I have a long relationship with Brazil have lived, made films, served on panels in Afro -Brazilian film/art festivals & most recently taken our Family Pictures Institute for Inclusive Storytelling to the Brasilia where we were invited by the Federal Univ…lnkd.in/er4Sv6hK
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I'm glad this is finally making the news. A Tanzania friend and filmmaker shared this story with me when we met two months ago. I grew up partly in Tanzania and always felt a certain ambivalence around safari and it's colonial hist…lnkd.in/exxipP8q lnkd.in/exzQF7_j

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I'm so grateful that there will be a screening of my 2005 film, "Twelve Disciples of Nelson Mandela: A Son's Tribute to Unsung Heroes" in South Africa at Stellenbosch University Museum as part of International Museum Month TODAY.…lnkd.in/e_WwrpPy lnkd.in/ev3HGDMe
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Heartbroken over the passing of the legendary actor, singer and civil rights activist, Harry Belafonte. He paved the way for not only freedom within the context of Black Americans, but for the larger African diaspora as well. In my film “Twelve Disciples…lnkd.in/exghD4gE
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Looking forward to hosting pioneering filmmaker Rea Tajiri at Yale University tomorrow evening to screen & discuss her important new film "Wisdom Gone Wild." This public event is part of my Archive Aesthetics & Community Storytelli…lnkd.in/ewpC6ywZ lnkd.in/ea5xtnGB
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📷 VIRTUAL EVENT: Join me for a #FindingYourRoots conversation next Wednesday (April 12th!) with Host @HenryLouisGates, Lead Genealogist @CeCeLMoore, and Series Producer Natalia Warchol! Lots of great behind-the-scenes stories! 📷️ Register to attend: eventbrite.com/e/55381310891…

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Mel King - Boston civil rights figurehead and former mayoral candidate just passed away. He appeared in my very first film 65-C Codman Park (1987) a doc which followed 10 Harvard students who move into a public housing authority to run a youth enrichment…lnkd.in/emyZxzSe
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Article on upcoming lecture series with Sheila Pree Bright! Bright appeared in my NAACP award-winning 2014 film "Through a Lens Darkly: Black Photographers and the Emergence of a People" lnkd.in/esUAqRDm
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📢 VIRTUAL EVENT: Join this Wednesday, March 8th at 8pm ET to see me host and moderate a panel about how advancements in science have impacted genealogy research #FindingYourRoots #PBS Register to attend: lnkd.in/ePpZKRyS
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On a lunchtime hike along a nearby lake I noticed these shapes that look like gigantic snow flakes. This is the first time I remember seeing them and wonder if they are connected to the usually warm and fluctuating winters here in the Northeast. Curious a…lnkd.in/esYJrH-D

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Join me and Third World Newsreel (TWN) TONIGHT to celebrate the restoration of “Suzanne Suzanne” and “Finding Christa" by Camille Billops & James Hatch! Camille was a mentor of mine, so I am happy to be featured in the post-scree…lnkd.in/ersaufdC lnkd.in/ex_Zzrsz
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