Category: History & Culture

  • 16th anniversary of the 2007 premiere of SKFPR

    16th anniversary of the 2007 premiere of SKFPR

    FESPACO From the first FESPACO I attended in 1985, it was my dream to return to FESPACO as director of OUR story.TWENTY-TWO years later, the dream came true!! The FIRST feature of a CV American woman director filmmaker to premiere at FESPACO.

  • Route 195

    Route 195

    AUGUST 11, 2022 ‘Traumatic’: How Route 195 uprooted the Cape Verdean community in Providence’s Fox Point Like so many highway projects that cut through America mid-century inthe name of progress, Route 195 has left a scar in Rhode Island. Cecelia “Dottie” Dorothy Ramos obituary > Download PDF version

  • Sankofa: A Celebration

    Sankofa: A Celebration

    FEBRUARY 22, 2022 Looking Back, Moving Forward Through Black Cinema Claire Andrade-Watkins and the Marlboro Institute for Liberal Arts and Interdisciplinary Studies hosted a special screening and virtual celebration of the film for the Emerson community, featuring a panel of scholars, digital archivists, and librarians. Watch “Some Kind of Funny Porto Rican?”: A Cape Verdean American…