Publications
"Photos by 19th Century Photographer Griffith J. Davis Are Again In the Spotlight"
By Sandra Dawson Long Weaver
Morgan State Global Journalism Review
Pages 34-38, Volume 8 Winter 2023
February 12th, 2020
The Ways of Langston Hughes: Griff Davis and Black Artists in the Making
January 2024
"Telling on Archival Erasure: The Stories Behind Griffith Davis' Liberia Photographs"
"Facing Black Star" published by The Image Centre
2023
Griff Davis is featured in the chapter entitled "Telling on Archival Erasure: The Stories Behind Griffith Davis' Liberia Photographs" and his 1948 photograph "Going Through Colored Entrance at Movie", at Fox Theater in Atlanta, Georgia is on the back cover.
“Kennedy, Nixon, and the Competition for Mr. Africa, 1952-1960”
By Greg Garland
The Foreign Service Journal: Special Edition on U.S. and Africa in preparation for President Joe Biden’s U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit (December 12-14, 2022)
September 2022
WEDU-PBS Arts Plus,"Griffith Davis"
Tampa Bay, Florida
August 24, 2023
“The American Diplomat”
National Broadcast, PBS American Experience/Flowstate Films Documentary
February 15, 2022
The Edward R. Dudley segment contains 42 of Griff Davis' black and white photographs of Ambassador Dudley and African American diplomats at US Embassy/Monrovia, Liberia, 1949-1957; film clips from first promotional film of Liberia commissioned by Liberia President William V. S. Tubman, “Pepperbird Land”, to producer Griff Davis and narrated by emerging actor Sidney Poitier (1952) and film of Gold Coast (Ghana) Prime Minister Kwame Nkrumah’s first visit to Liberia in January 1953.