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Tag: Black film

Haile and Shirikiana Gerima
Posted inLifestyle

D.C. Bookstore a Hub for Black Film

by Tatyana Hopkins – Washington Informer Contributing Writer February 28, 2018October 31, 2020

Decades before Sankofa Video, Books and Café was a brick-and-mortar location in 1997, the store’s legendary filmmaking founders Haile and Shirikiana Gerima worked with Howard University students to bring Black film to the streets of D.C. through pop-up screenings around the city.

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