Local Students’ Documentary To Debut At Smithsonian

Mobile County Public Schools has announced that Ddwayne Lockett-James, who recently graduated from Murphy High School, and Ethan Gwinn, a rising senior at Baker High School, have been selected to have their National History Day documentary shown in the Oprah Winfrey Theatre at the National Museum of African American History and Culture, a Smithsonian Institution museum in Washington, D.C. Their documentary, one of 16 selected from more than 150 submissions, is titled Rediscovering Roots in the Harlem Renaissance: How Zora Neale Hurston’s Barracoon Contributed to Clarifying African American Ancestry. It will be available to the public at the museum on June 12 and then available to stream online.