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Trailer – “Black To Our Roots” (Are You An American Or An African In America?)

Living in a housing project in Atlanta, Georgia, 17-year-old Sylvia Dorsey is frustrated by the drug abuse and violence that surrounds her. She decides to trace her roots, and eventually goes on a journey to explore her ancestral home in Ghana, in an attempt to escape the cycle of violence and poverty of her Atlanta neighborhood. In Ghana, Sylvia confronts several challenges that change her life forever. When she returns to the United States, will she be able to adjust to her old world as a new woman?

Directed by Ras Tre Subira, the film was released on DVD in 2007, after playing the festival circuit; I’ve never seen it. Have you? If not, you can pick up a copy HERE.

1 comment to Trailer – “Black To Our Roots” (Are You An American Or An African In America?)

  • Wow!, The Ties That Bind!, i will make a super purchase!.:) i cant help but think of those old school tomes- amiri baraka’s blues people,nikki giovanni’s nigger, claude brown’s manchild of a promised land,george jackson’s blood in my eye,toni cade bambara’s black woman and gorilla ,my love all the way the way up and beyond cress welsing’s isis papers and amacar cabral’s return to the source and unity and struggle! , this will be Blood!.

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