Black to Our Roots
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Black to Our Roots (2008, 57 min) Living in a housing project in Atlanta, GA, 17-year-old Sylvia Dorsey is frustrated by the violence and drug abuse that surrounds her. Determined to transcend this environment, she finds herself on a soul-searching mission as she travels with a group of other Atlanta youth to Ghana. Together they gain a new sense of themselves, address their misconceptions, and grapple with the unity and divisions amongst African communities throughout the world. Black to Our Roots was made by Tre Subira, a teacher at the New Technology Charter School, who recently moved to Philadelphia from Atlanta.
Watch Black to Our Roots trailer.
Also screening:
Under the Baobab Tree
(2007, 16 min)
A Scribe Community Visions video made by PASCEP about their 32-year-old, all volunteer education and outreach program created out of struggles in 1970s to make Temple University more responsive to the African American community in North Philadelphia where the University is based.
This screening is part of Storyville Scribe's Monthly Documentary Screening & Discussion Series which takes place every 2nd Friday of the month.