“Reflections Unheard”: A New Film on Black Women and Civil Rights

This post is part of a new blog series that announces the release of new Hollywood and documentary films in African American History and African Diaspora Studies. Today, I am featuring “Reflections Unheard: Black Women in Civil Rights,” which is currently screening at locations across the country.This post is part of a new blog series that announces the release of new Hollywood and documentary films in African American History and African Diaspora Studies.She is a founding member the New Negress Film Society, an artist collective and activist space, which supports and works by and about black women filmmakers.Reflections Unheard is a feature length documentary, and the first of its kind to focus exclusively on black women’s contributions and experiences during the Civil Rights era.History is more often than not shared from the male/masculine perspective.