AIN'T I A BLACK WOMAN- LIBERATION, LUMPKIN'S LEGACY
A Black Woman Centered Film
A Black Woman Centered Film
A Black Woman Centered Film
AIN'T I A BLACK WOMAN -Liberation, Lumpkin's Legacy is a documentary inspired by the resilience and triumph of an enslaved Black woman Mary Lumpkin. The women featured in the film through their art, activism, organizations are working to narrow long entrenched racial disparities in marginalized communities. Currently in post production, release 2024.
Zsameria Rayford
A Black Woman Centered Film
A Black Woman Centered Film
The co-founder of SWAP DC, Zsameria, through her culturally centered clothing, book, household items swaps, brings the message of climate change and the importance of making choices that help save Mother Earth. "There is no planet B."
Be Steadwell
A Black Woman Centered Film
The Healacist
Be Steadwell is an artist, filmmaker, singer songwriter who through her art centers the Black LGBTQ community and Black women Be's talents have taken her around the world.
The Healacist
The Healacist
The Healacist
Melissa Princess Best uses her rap and Hip Hop lyrics and accompanying workshops to heal Black mother daughter relationships and strengthen the self-image of Black girls.
Nee Nee Taylor
The Healacist
Nee Nee Taylor
A core organizer of Black Lives Matter DC and co-founder of Harriet's Dreams, Nee Nee says, coming form a family of activists, "I didn't choose the movement, the movement chose me."
F.L.Y. Zyah
The Healacist
Nee Nee Taylor
Zyah is a 9 year versatile rapper whose lyrics rally around the fight for justice in Black and Brown communities. One of her role models is Tamika Mallory. Zyah is a straight A student as well.
Prof. Carolivia Herron
Prof. Carolivia Herron
Prof. Carolivia Herron
Prof. Herron is the great, great granddaughter of Mary Lumpkin. She shared with us her family's history from enslavement to freedom.
Sameria King
Prof. Carolivia Herron
Prof. Carolivia Herron
Sameria King is an urban farmer who started and maintains with the help of students and Ward 7
community members, The Farm At Kelly Miller Middle School.
Erika Totten
Prof. Carolivia Herron
Erika Totten
Helping BIPOC folks break free from self-limiting beliefs to create lives rooted in joy, authenticity and liberation.
Nkechi Taifa
Chanel Porchia-Albert
Erika Totten
Nkechi Taifa is a visionary and seasoned professional with 40 years of experience as an accomplished justice system reform strategist, advocate and scholar. She is an exceptional leader who excels at advancing creative, cutting edge approaches that encourage out-of-the box thinking and action. The wealth of her experiences over the past s
Nkechi Taifa is a visionary and seasoned professional with 40 years of experience as an accomplished justice system reform strategist, advocate and scholar. She is an exceptional leader who excels at advancing creative, cutting edge approaches that encourage out-of-the box thinking and action. The wealth of her experiences over the past several decades have allowed her to pursue justice from different vantage points – as a litigator, lobbyist, academician, advocate, policy analyst, community activist, convener, and grant-maker.
Qiana Johnson
Chanel Porchia-Albert
Chanel Porchia-Albert
Life After Release (LAR) is a women-based, formerly incarcerated-led organization. LAR provides support for the needs of formerly incarcerated women re-entering their communities. We empower women by teaching them how to manage life after release from incarceration. We also teach them grassroots organizing and advocacy skills to shape legislation and policy that affects their lives.
Chanel Porchia-Albert
Chanel Porchia-Albert
Chanel Porchia-Albert
"I have been working within infant and maternal health since 2008 when I founded Ancient Song Doula
Services a doula organization focused on bringing full spectrum services and classes to those who are often overlooked within marginalized communities and address the disproportionately high infant and maternal mortality rate among African-American women in NYC and New Jersey."
BackBurner Dreams on Television
Tune in Sept. 17th!!!
BackBurner Dreams will be aired again tonight,
9:30pm EST on WHUT TV, a Washington, DC area PBS station/
Check your cable listings for where to tune in your area and TUNE IN!!!
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Please contact me if you're interested in hosting
a screening, I'd love to share this thought provoking film.with you, your organization, school, church. bhayesfilms@gmail.com