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Holiday Greetings From
DDFR Founder
Thomas Allen Harris!
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I am grateful for all the blessings this past year has brought for Digital Diaspora Family Reunion. Over the past 11 months we have toured with the DDFR Roadshow to, among other places, Philadelphia, Oakland, Albany, Saratoga, Toronto, and Addis Ababa, Ethiopia; hosted by schools, homeless shelters, festivals, cultural institutions and colleges. Highlighting the family photo as a source of inspiration, we continue to nurture new generations of storytellers around the world. This summer we also launched our popular Digital Diaspora Facebook Group so that people could participate in a virtual Roadshow and spread the love from anywhere at anytime. In addition, our films, especially Through A Lens Darkly, have helped activists and image makers historicize the use of the camera in articulating and combating racial injustice. In these trying and volatile times, DDFR offers images that open hearts to the celebration of family within and across cultures. Thank you for helping to create a community that strives to build a vision rooted in commonality and compassion, gratitude and love.
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Discovering
Native American Ancestry
This is Digital Diaspora's first Thanksgiving since launching our Facebook group this summer and we are celebrating it with a series of short videos including this one featuring Brittany Kent's family discovery of a Native American ancestor.
While enjoying Thanksgiving, make sure to explore family photographs & listen to stories of relatives, friends and ancestors. We at Digital Diaspora look forward to the sharing of FAMILY LOVE right here in our group! |
Footsteps of a Forgotten Soldier
The Life and Times of David Carll
"We wanted to have a better understanding of who we are. Each person in these photos had a story to tell. Our great-grandfather, Frank Carll, looked like a white man to us. Most of his siblings looked as though they were white. The simple fact was they were half white. These were the children of David Carll, the Civil War soldier, and his wife Mary Louisa Carll who was white. This simple fact left us all wondering how did they do it? How were they able to be married at a time when the country was divided by Civil War? How were they able to raise a family of 9 children during Reconstruction? When we looked at our family photos of our relatives, this is what drove us to find the answers..."
Read more of our Digital Diaspora Family Reunion featured blog piecewritten by our recent Harlem Roadshow participants Francis S. Carl & Denice Evans Sheppard - including our DDFR video segment with Denice!
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A Father's Secret to Success
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Digital Diaspora Family Reunion visited St. Louis, MO at the Nine Network studio! It was there, we connected with mentor/entrepreneur Koran Bolden and his son Koran jr., who shared with us their photos and family love.
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Bring Home the NAACP Best Doc
Through A Lens Darkly
Today!
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The first documentary to explore the American family photo album through the eyes of black photographers, Through a Lens Darkly probes the recesses of American history to discover images that have been suppressed, forgotten and lost. From slavery to the present, these extraordinary images unveil a world confronting the difficult edges of citizenship and what it means to be human. Inspired by Deborah Willis's book Reflections in Black and featuring works by Carrie Mae Weems, Lorna Simpson, Anthony Barboza, Hank Willis Thomas and many others,Through a Lens Darkly introduces the viewer to a community of storytellers who collectively transform singular experiences into a journey of discovery - and a call to action.
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