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 ran a small antiques shop, where he collected numerous photographs featuring Black subjects. Growing up, Pamela was always intrigued by the images from times long past of people who she had mistaken for relatives when she was younger. These haunting photographs overflowed the shop and were displayed all over her family’s home. Mixed in were also photographs of her own family, including her mom, sister, father, in-laws. At the DDFR Roadshow, Pamela shared these as well as images she gathered during research on her books – particularly Within the Veil: Black Journalists, White Media, A Love No Less: Two Centuries of African American Love Letters and her recently published, Letters from Black America.
Pamela Newkirk will be joined by Ruby Dee and Anthony Chisholm for a reading from Letters from Black America at the Studio Museum of Harlem on April 7th at 7pm.
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