“The African experience is global,” said Niyi Coker, E. Desmond Lee Endowed Professor at UMSL. “This festival allows you to understand the experiences that Africans are having in other countries ...

His documentary, “We Were Here: The Untold History of Black Africans in Renaissance Europe,” screened in Mills Hall and was ...

Two-time Oscar winner Ben Proudfoot shines a light on Chris Hesse, a very energetic 90-year-old who filmed all of Ghana's ...

Brook Sitgraves Turner said the film addresses a transition that African students face from being the majority to being judged for their skin color. (Ana Hunter / Daily Trojan) School of Cinematic ...

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"Don't be afraid. Keep on filming." The African country of Ghana has a rich history in the cinematic arts. Nonagenarian filmmaker Chris Hesse knows this more than anyone on the planet. Through his ...

Fifty years after NASA put the first men on the moon, this 2019 history documentary was released to celebrate the essential wonder of that historic space mission, without extraneous commentary.

Fújì fuses Islamic philosophy and wordsmithing with Yoruba poetry and meaning-making to create sound, idioms and recreational habits. It does this across social classes, from the wealthy in the ...

Oct. 29—EAU CLAIRE — Paul Agbashi was 17 when he left his lifelong home in Nigeria to attend UW-Eau Claire. In addition to the normal challenges of starting college, he was forced to adapt to an ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- The story of how a historic graveyard was bulldozed over to make way for a strip mall on Staten Island will soon be told. The documentary, “Stated Island Graveyard,” focuses on ...

SAN DIEGO — When people think about surfing, they think of Hawaii, but a new film that is out titled "Wade in the Water" takes a different look at Black aquatic and surfing history. David Mesfin is ...

For filmmaker Anthony Asota, a routine visit to Dallas in 2021 became a reclamation and an unexpected journey back to himself. What started out as a casual exploration of one of Dallas’ iconic Black ...