A grandmother in the Khayelitsha township in Cape Town, South Africa churns a barrel of Umqombothi, a traditional Xhosa beer for special or spiritual occasions.
A zebra stands attentively at the Aquila Safari Reserve in South Africa.
Battle of My 67 Beads was hosted at the V&A Waterfront by Relate Trust in honor of Mandela Day. Cape Town, South African local celebrity, Liezel van der Westhuizen, pairs up with a gogo for the competition.
Yik Yak users are going to have to start making usernames to share thoughts on the app.
The crowd watches as Emily Vu, Nguyễn Huy and Lenningrad Generoso Smith perform a Vietnamese pop song called Sautatca at Mercer University Rangreli Ki Raat's 3rd Annual Cultural Exposition.
Artist Joereal Elliott looks at his mural in Mercer Village.
The staff of Cape Community Newspapers (CCN), which publishes 15 community newspapers in South Africa, cooked and served meals to members of the Scottsdene community at The Umtshayelo Foundation (TUF) in Brackenfell on Friday July 14 to give back in honor of Mandela Day. Blaine Antonio tucks into a meal.
Two african elephants graze on the Aquila Safari Reserve in South Africa.
An abandoned home in the Pleasant Hill neighborhood of Macon, Georgia.
A lion watches its surroundings closely at the Aquila Safari Reserve in South Africa.
Charney Engelbrecht, who works at Jai Aerial yoga studio in South Africa, bends over backwards to celebrate International Day of Yoga alongside hundreds of people in Cape Town's Central Business District on Saturday June 17 .
A squirrel runs up a tree in front of Shorter Hall on Mercer University's Macon campus.
Artist Joereal Elliott paints a mural on the exterior wall of Indigo Salon on Coleman Avenue. The mural is named “Cultivating New Tones on the Spectral Stage of History.”
Shelsea Chilumuna waits on the balcony of Willingham Hall to participate the ASA Culture Night fashion show.
Keerthika Ravikumar claps for the performance before hers at MU Rangreli’s third annual cultural exposition on March 17th, 2018.
Fashion designers showcased their work at the ASA Culture Night fashion show.
CJ Kleckley jumps over a ramp at the Macon skate park.
An audio story about natural hair and growth based on the NPR audio stories This I Believe.
🔗A Lucky One / 2017 "My mother's inspiring story about her journey coming to America." This is digital storytelling project produced completely by Ackerman.
🔗Preserving Roots through Progress / 2016 Macon native, Danny Glover, walks the streets of his family’s neighborhood, Gateway Heights, as he reflects on what he wants the community to be. He decided to start an organization that focuses on contributing to progress in a community that doesn’t take anything away from it. He founded One South Community Development Corporation, an organization that works to uplift and rebuild communities, without displacing residents.
This is a digital storytelling group project. Shot and edited by Ackerman.