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African American history often gets buried in the bowels of the past. I am always embarrassed when I learn about moments from Black history that I feel I should already know. The subject of Margaret Brown’s documentary Descendant is the slave ship Clotilda, found off the coast of Plateau, Alabama (labeled Africatown)…

Former President Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama have established quite a track record with their Netflix-based production company, Higher Ground. Their first documentary, American Factory, won the Academy Award in 2020, and last year their documentary Crip Camp earned an Oscar nomination. Higher Ground's latest…

Netflix has taken worldwide rights to Participant's feature documentary Descendant, which just won the U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award: Creative Vision at the Sundance Film Festival. Higher Ground, President Barack Obama and Michelle Obama's production company, will present the film alongside…

For more than 150 years, the waters of the Mobile River in Alabama harbored a secret: the final resting place of the Clotilda, the last slave ship known to have reached U.S. shores. In 2019 the vessel's remains were finally discovered in a section of the river alongside land still owned by the family of the slaver who…

EXCLUSIVE: Most Americans enjoy the luxury of knowing where their ancestors came from – perhaps a town in Ireland, a village in Germany, a community in India, or bustling Beirut. That is not the case for most African Americans: among the extraordinary cruelties of slavery is that it deprived those in bondage of their…