27th Annual Charleston Middle Passage Remembrance to be held JUNE 8th, 2024
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Join Us next year .. We had a great turnout for our 26th year .. program description below!
REMEMBRANCE COMMEMORATION 2024
Charleston, South Carolina
On Saturday June 8, 2024 from 9:00am – 1:00pm EST, the Charleston Area Branch Association for the Study of African American Life and Histor
y (ASALH) Remembrance Committee hosts REMEMBRANCE COMMEMORATION 2024
The Libation Ceremony at 12:00 Noon EST, officiated by Yoruba Priestess OsunWonuola EfunLayo pays homage to African Ancestors. The annual commemoration provides an opportunity for members of the African-descended community to collectively remember the millions of Africans -- men, women, and children, who were sold, kidnapped, shipped away from their homeland, and who died along the route from Africa to the Americas. By remembering, we honor and restore the humanity of the nameless faceless Ancestors, disrupt the collective amnesia, and continue the process of healing from the fear, pain, guilt and shame of the experience that continues to traumatize the African descended community. Additionally, we seek the restoration of cultural identity, dignity and pride. REMEMBRANCE programs (aka Tribute to the Ancestors) are conducted in various National and International locations. All people of African heritage are strongly encouraged participate. For information visit our page. IF WE DON’T REMEMBER AND HONOR THEM – WHO WILL! Join us Saturday June 8, 2024, 9:00 am - 1:00pm at Fort Moultrie. Charleston Middle Passage Remembrance
https://www.facebook.com/CHSRemembrance
YouTube Charleston Middle Passage Remembrance
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Twitter https://twitter.com/CHSRemembrance
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REMEMBRANCE Inspiration: “All those Africans in the briny deep. All those people who said ‘no’ and jumped ship. All those people who tried to figure a way to steer, to navigate amongst the sharks. We don’t call upon that power… upon those spirits. We don’t celebrate those ancestors. We don’t have a marker, an expression, a song that we use to acknowledge them. We have nothing to indicate that those are our people and they mattered … we don’t tap into the ancestral presence in the waters.” ––Toni Cade Bambara (1987)
“Spirit of the Dead, rise up and claim your story.” ––Introduction to the film “Sankofa” (1993)
“If the Atlantic were to dry up, it would reveal a scattered pathway of human bones, African bones marking the various routes of the Middle Passage.” ––Dr. John Henrik Clarke’s introduction to “The Middle Passage: Black Ships/White Cargo” by Tom Feelings (1995)
The Charleston Remembrance Program is a sponsored by:
Charleston Branch ASALH Remembrance Committee
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