Shared Effort

On Friday, May 29, Princeton Project 55 kicked off its 20^th Anniversary with a screening of the documentary Traces of the Trade: A Story From the Deep North by filmmaker and inaugural PP55 fellow, Katrina Browne ’89. Following the standing-room-only screening of the film with more than 200 people in attendance, there was a question and answer session with the filmmaker and David Campt ’82, nationally renowned consultant on issues of race relations and diversity. The screening was co-sponsored by Princeton in Africa, Princeton in Latin America, the Carl A. Fields Center for Equality and Cultural Understanding, the Center for African American Studies, the History and Anthropology Departments and the Davis International Center. For more information about the film, visit http://www.tracesofthetrade.org/.

 Katrina was also in the headlines during President Obama’s recent overseas trip to Ghana. Read the story here: http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/07/17/obama.slavery/index.html