Posts By RBGM Staff

California Newsreel, 2000.

(Winner of Academy Award, Best Documentary)

“Resilients: Fon,” (2013-2014)

© Joana Choumali

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Johnston Harry Hamilton, “Three generations of Louisiana negroes; Grandmother can only talk Creole French; mother talks French and English; boy only talks English.” (1910)  

© Macmillan

Real Black Grandmothers Creator and Founder, Dr. LaShawnDa Pittman talks about the importance of preserving Black grandmothers stories.

Alesia Cannady (founder of Women United and the Angel of Hope Play Place) is leading a group of kinship caregivers (primarily grandparents caring for grandchildren) in sewing colorful cloth face …
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Corina Knolls of the NY Times wrote, “On a Sunday in October, Gabe Rice’s body was discovered near a Brooklyn bay known for the glass bottles that wash …
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The quilter Rosie Lee Tompkins felt she was an instrument of God and saw her work as an expression of her faith and his designs. She is noted for saying, …
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