A few minutes ago, I was riding the high of having two documentaries done in one year. One is a film that delves into America’s pressing affordable housing crisis, tracing its historical roots and societal impact. The other is the story about an agency coming out of a three-decades-long lawsuit. That latter is my third […]
WASHINGTON, D.C. — After watching a 22-minute film on the hair salons in Ghana, it was quiet in the Sub level 2 lecture hall of the Smithsonian National Museum of African Art. The screen went blank and the lights were up. Yet no one spoke, just the sounds of teens scribbling in their journals. Their […]
As a self-described “movie buff,” Crystyn C. Wright loves films, especially those reflecting the lives of African Americans. At one time, the Bronx-native, going by mainstream’s offerings, settled on the assumption that not enough black filmmakers were producing those films. That assumption was corrected after she traveled to various film festivals. But Wright, a journalist […]
Alan W. King 