The family album has kept us together,” photographer and filmmaker Thomas Allen Harris told me. Harris was commenting on his new PBS television series, Family Pictures USA.

Thomas Allen Harris talked about his film, [Through a Lens Darkly: Black Photographers and the Emergence of a People], in which he explores how African-Americans have been portrayed in ...

What: "Twelve Disciples of Nelson Mandela," written/produced/directed by Warwick resident Thomas Allen Harris Where: Shadowland Theater, 157 Canal St., Ellenville When: 1 p.m. tomorrow Tickets: Free ...

Photographs taken by professional and vernacular African-American photographers over the past 170 years shed light on the lives of black families. The Thomas Allen Harris-directed film was ...