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 […]
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The Last Generation: A Survivor’s Story
While the Digital Diaspora Family Reunion (DDFR) Roadshow was at Brooklyn College, Thomas Allen Harris had the opportunity to explore a family history that lived through the Holocaust of World […]
Distance and Desire: Encounters with the African Archive
On September 12th, The Walther Collection debut its new photo exhibition entitled, “Distance and Desire: Encounter of the African Archive” which includes images curated by photographer Santu Mofokeng (The Black […]
DDFR Team Attends the 143rd Still Family Reunion
The Digital Diaspora Family Reunion (DDFR) team was honored to attend the 143rd Still Family Reunion in Lawnside, New Jersey on August 12, 2012. The Still gathering is one of […]
Dr. Marshall Shares Her Appreciation For DDFR
Thomas Allen Harris presenting at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture Dear Thomas, Congratulations to you and the team on the Through A Lens Darkly (TALD) Special Screening […]
Chicago’s African American folk gardens
“The Chicago Botanic Garden and DuSable Museum of African-American History partner to host joint exhibition ‘Places for the Spirit: Traditional African American Gardens.’ The exhibit shares its name with photographer […]
President Obama might have ties to Slavery through his Mother
There have been many questions about President Barack Obama’s ancestral roots. But now new light has been shed on this issue, thanks to new advances in genealogical research tools. (Photo […]
Jazz Giant Jimmy Heath visits with DDFR @ Louis Armstrong House Museum
Jimmy Heath embodies the history of jazz. In his 60 years on the jazz scene, the saxophone great has appeared on more than 125 records as both a composer and […]
Reverend Irene Monroe, A Winner of 2012 Spirit of Justice Award of GLAD
Reverend Irene Monroe, nationally renowned African-American lesbian activist, scholar and public theologian, will receive this year’s Spirit of Justice Award from Gay & Lesbian Advocates & Defenders (GLAD), New England’s […]
DDFR Media Literacy Workshop @ Gowanus Houses
Digital Diaspora Family Reunion (DDFR) had a workshop at Gowanus Houses, one of the New York City Housing Authority’s housing developments in Brooklyn on Saturday, June 30th. It was yet […]