Black history explored in films by local filmmaker

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The recent decision by the Florida Board of Education to whitewash the history of slavery and the oppression of African-Americans in the United States set off a firestorm nationwide, but one San Francisco artist and filmmaker is no stranger to the obfuscation of Black history.

This led Robinson down a rabbit hole of research – from census records to internet archives to the property records of white families – tracing her family from Kentucky to California to the transatlantic slave trade. The last shot lingers on the artist’s cupped hands, holding soil from the ground is a lyrical visual metaphor for her excavation of the past.

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