Our Digital Diaspora Family Reunion Facebook group community has been sharing beautiful pictures and heartwarming histories, highlighting the necessity of a platform where we can not only celebrate our family […]
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Digital Diaspora Participant Reconstructs Her Family Album with Art
During our Digital Diaspora Family Reunion Roadshow at DC Public Library, emerging young artist Adrienne Gaither participated by sharing her art work which draws from her family photo albums and […]
Digital Diaspora Family Reunion Inspires Memory Lab in DC Public Library!
“I knew Digital Diaspora was impacting individuals, families, communities and institutions through the work we’ve been doing and the feedback we’ve gotten but it wasn’t until we returned to DC […]
Digital Diaspora Family Reunion Visits Yale University for 1Yale1Family Project!
Digital Diaspora Family Reunion was invited for a special Black History Month kickoff event at the Afro-American Cultural Center at Yale University. The Center saw our DDFR Roadshow as a […]
Digital Diaspora Family Reunion in the Classroom at Temple University
Digital Diaspora Family Reunion started off the school year at Temple University! Thomas Allen Harris and Don Perry were invited by the Film Media Arts department to bring a mini-DDFR […]
Footsteps of a Forgotten Soldier: The Life and Times of David Carll
For Denice and I our story was introduced to us in the early 1970’s as young children. Our grandfather, Percy Carl, would take us on walks to our family […]
Artist Defies the Black Family Stereotype Using Abandoned Family Polaroids
“What intrigues me when I look at these images is that they show African Americans with a distinct and powerful sense of pride and joy. Despite the fact that these […]
Thomas Allen Harris’s First Digital Diaspora Class in Ethiopia!
First day teaching my class for the Pan African workshop on Professional Media Production: Building Capacity in Photojournalism, Documentary Film and Feature Writing. The program is sponsored by UNESCO, the […]
Found Tinytypes Paint a Historical Picture of Sag Harbor, New York
A tintype, also known as a melainotype or ferrotype, is a photograph made by creating a direct positive on a thin sheet of metal coated with a dark lacquer or […]
Elaine’s Precious Photos
Digital Diaspora Family Reunion was gifted a remarkable photo album from Myrla, which she received from her mother in law, Elaine R. Howell-Meade (1922-1998). Myrla’s father and Elaine knew […]