Locally-made documentary celebrates the Buffalo Soldiers

The Tacoma International Film Festival winner got its start in The City of Destiny. #k5evening

TACOMA, Wash. — In the documentary “Buffalo Soldiers: Fighting On Two Fronts,” we learn long before America kept its promise that all men are equal, Black soldiers fought for this country as peacekeepers in the Indian Wars and well beyond.

Director Dru Holley said the film got its start after his daughter asked him about Black reenactors riding horses at a Langston Hughes Juneteenth event in 2018.

“I told her they were the Buffalo Soldiers,” Holley said. “But I was a little bit sad that I didn’t know much

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