USA: Music-Based Documentary Explores Resilience of Afro Women
Afro Women Overcoming Enslavement ‘Reclaiming History: Our Native Daughters,’ is a documentary that explores the stories of enslaved Afro women by way of the 2019 folk album 'Songs of Our Native Daughters' by four black female North-American singer-songwriters — Rhiannon Giddens, Leyla McCalla, Allison Russell and Amythyst Kiah. Russell shares how the journey of bringing the project to life affected her. "The whole became greater than the sum of its parts. It felt like our ancestors were there with us because they are. We wouldn't be here doing this, having this talk if it wasn't for th...