Press Release September 2023- Quakertown Project

Mary Ellen Taylor sat, tall and defiant, in her rocking chair inside her home. Her house was being moved on railroad ties, pulled by a team of mules from Quakertown to a cow pasture across the tracks in Southeast Denton, which in the early 1920s was the outskirts of town…

The Denton Black Film Festival wrapped up its ninth year, topping 10,000 attendees and recognizing some of the nation’s top filmmakers.

Congratulations to the filmmakers and creatives who were awarded for the 2023 Denton Black Film Festival. Check out the stories behind the films.

Photographer and author Chester Higgins, Jr. was inspired by his HBCU to pursue a career in photography; starting with documenting Jesse Jackson.

Photographer Beatrice Mcbride documented the impact of Ahmaud Arbery’s vigilante style murder on his Brunswick Georgia, Gullah Geechee community.