Name: Consider It Blacklit: A Dissussion with filmmaker Cheryl Williamson by Brooklyn Free Speech Radio
Duration: 27 min 4 s
Description: Host Kim Singleton sits down with the award-winning filmmaker Cheryl Polote Williamson. Williamson is one of the executive producers of the acclaimed documentary TWENTY PEARLS, which chronicles the history of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Incorporated (r) the first Black sorority founded on the campus of Howard University in 1908.

Host Kim Singleton sits down with the award-winning filmmaker Cheryl Polote Williamson. Williamson is one of the executive producers of the acclaimed documentary TWENTY PEARLS, which chronicles the history of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Incorporated (r) the first Black sorority founded on the campus of Howard University in 1908.

Consider It Blacklit: A Dissussion with filmmaker Cheryl Williamson

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