- Received a scholarship to attend CUNY-Brooklyn College but dropped out due to her disappointment with the quality of the teaching.
- In 2012 she gifted her library of films to the Smithsonian Institution's Center for African American Media Arts.
- Founder of African Diaspora Images, a collection of visual and oral histories that documents the history of African-American filmmaking.
- Began her career at CBS as a Nielsen rating analyzer.
- In the 1980s she received a grant from the Ford Foundation to travel around the United States and "collect oral histories from individuals in Oscar Micheaux's orbit, loosely following the route he would have traveled decades earlier".
- In 1979 she organized the nation's first American women's film festival in New York City.
- Started teaching seminars and workshops on African-American and African film at universities, libraries and museums in 1971.
- In 1971 she organized her first film festival, the Black Film History Series.
- Founded and directed the Chamba Educational Film Services, a film distribution company that specialized in distributing films by African American filmmakers. In the early 1980s, she renamed her company/collection as African Diaspora Images, a collection of historical and contemporary films documenting Black film history.
- In 1989, alongside Grant Munro, she programmed the 35th Flaherty Film Seminar, which featured films such as Finzan, Zajota The Boogie Spirit, Daughters of the Dust, and many more.
- Was the director of the Theater Project at Third World Newsreel, the largest distributor of independent film by people of color in the United States, from 1978 to 1987.
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