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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 […]

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. […]

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 […]

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 […]

by DON PERRY All my life, people have looked at me with confusion, their eyes filled with questions, Who are your people? What’s your background? When I travel to the […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Pierre Thiam, chef at the Senegalese restaurant Le Grand Dakar, reminisces while displaying his family photographs with Thomas in his home and at the DDFR road show in Brooklyn, NY. […]