Home to Harlem

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"Home to Harlem" presents Harlem through an archival lens as both an actual home for Black citizens and families and as a location in the popular imagination of African Americans, by exploring the multiple intersections of documentary, amateur films, home movies, musical shorts, nontheatrical materials, family archives and the preservation of cultural artifacts of the community. The series will also spotlight film exhibition in Harlem as  innovated by Jessie Maple and LeRoy Patton’s 20 West: Home of Black Cinema.