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.