MGJR Volume 15 Winter/Spring 2026 | Página 6

THE CENTER FOR NEW MEDIA & STRATEGIC INITIATIVES is tasked with producing contemporary and historical documentary-style films about Black life in America.

NEW FILMS FROM THE CENTER FOR NEW MEDIA

ELLEN IRENE DIGGS

Ellen Irene Diggs had to fight for everything she got in life. But until now Diggs never achieved the recognition she deserved as an anthropologist, a sociologist, author and editor. But Diggs excelled in all of these areas and this documentary will tell her story- a story that history should not be allowed to forget.

RECENT FILMS

AMERICA’ S APARTHEID: BANNING BLACK BOOKS, SILENCING BLACK VOICES When the banning of books written by U. S. Black authors reached epidemic proportions, a group of Black writers, educators and journalists traveled to Havana to examines these attempts to erase Black history, and discover kinship with Afro Cubans
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