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Minorities in Healthcare Professional Panel

Minorities in Healthcare Professional Panel

Minorities in Healthcare Professional Panel

Maybank Hall – Room 100
College of Charleston
169 Calhoun Street
Charleston, SC 29401

Thursday, April 20th
6:00 PM – 8:00 PM (ET)

Join us for light refreshments, breakout sessions with MUSC advisors, STEM experts and much more!

 

Afro-Latino Travels with Kim Haas

Join the Latin American and Caribbean Studies Program in welcoming Kim Hass

Rita Hollings Science Center, Rm 101
College of Charleston
58 Coming Street, Charleston, SC 29401
Wednesday, April 19th
5:00 PM – 6:00 PM(ET)

Kim Haas

Kim Haas is Executive Producer, Host and Creator of Afro-Latino Travels with Kim Haas, a travel show celebrating the African influence in Latin America. She has traveled extensively throughout Latin America. Kim has been active in Afro-Latino issues for more than a decade and is founder of losafrolatinos.com, a blog celebrating Afro Latino culture. Kim speaks fluent Spanish, Italian and Portuguese. Her undergraduate and graduate degrees are in Spanish. Kim is the owner of Haas Media LLC, a multilingual community outreach, translation services, and communications firm located in the greater New York City area.

Hip-Hop + Culture as the New Modern Dance

Join us the for a presentation by Quattlebaum Artist Herman Ramos.

Chapel Theatre
College of Charleston
172 Calhoun Street, Charleston, SC 29401
Friday, April 14th
12:00 PM – 12:50 PM(ET)

Herman Ramos

Ukweli: Searching for Healing Truth 

Septima Clark Auditorium (Room 118)
Thaddeus Street Jr. Education Center
25 St. Philip St, Charleston, SC 29401
Tuesday, March 28, 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm

The recently unveiled mural of Septima P. Clark in the Education Center at the College of Charleston will serve as a backdrop for a March 28 conversation on the civil rights icon’s life and legacy. A 7:30 p.m. panel discussion at the center will include five contributors to the book “Ukweli: Searching for Healing Truth” and an archivist from the college’s Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture. Ukweli is a collection of essays and poems on the Black experience in America. Georgetown artist Natalie Daise created the 7-foot-high by 30-foot-long mural, “Saint Septima with Carolina Jasmine” in the center’s Septima P. Clark Memorial Auditorium. Unveiled on Feb. 23 in the auditorium’s foyer, the mural features Clark’s portrait in profile and a quote from a 1970 speech: “I believe unconditionally in the ability of people to respond when they are told the truth. We need to be taught to study rather than to believe, to inquire rather than to affirm.

Ukweli, is the Swahili word for truth. The book follows a 2020 poetry-lecture series at McLeod Plantation organized by poet Horace Mungin. He passed away before Ukweli was released in February 2022. The book is a collection of essays and poems from 49 contributors, including Mungin and co-editor Herb Frazier. Ukweli contributors Millicent Brown, LaTisha Vaugh and Karen Meadows will discuss their Ukweli essays and Clark’s legacy.

Brown is co-founder and project director of an oral history initiative to identify the “first children,” like herself, to desegregate previously all-white schools. LaTishais co-founder of E3: Educate, Empower, Elevate LLC, an organization that focuses on equitable outcomes for Black and brown children and families. Meadows, a high school counselor in Guilford County Schools, is an adjunct professor at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. Avery’s archivist Georgette Mayo will join them. Avery holds Clark’s personal papers.

Savannah Frierson, a Ukweli contributor and Avery’s office manager, will moderate the session. She and Marjory Wentworth, also a Ukweli contributor, will open and close the panel with Mungin’s poems from Ukweli. Wentworth teaches at the College of Charleston.

 

The event also provides an opportunity to premier a video that honors Mungin’s contributions to poetry and social activism. Charlotte filmmaker Steve Rutherford produced the seven-minute video as a tribute to Mungin, who started writing poetry in the mid-sixties during the genesis of the Black Arts Movement.

 

In addition to the Septima P. Clark mural, information panels in the Education Center present the periods of Clark’s life. Essays, interviews and a range of primary sources represent the online material the college has posted to tell Clark’s story as an educator and civil rights champion who Martin Luther King Jr. called the mother of the movement.

Black Studies and the Ethics of Historical Privacy: When Archival Silences Are Acts of Refusal

Join Dr. Mari N. Crabtree with a presentation of her sabbatical research.

Flyer - Dr. Mari N. Crabtree's Sabbatical Presentation: Black Studies and the Ethics of Historical Privacy: When Archival Silences are Acts of Refusal. Thursday, March 23rd, 2023 at 5:00 pm in Room 227, Addlestone Library, 224 Calhoun Street, Charleston, SC. Addlestone Library: Room 227
205 Calhoun Street, Charleston, SC
Thursday, March 23, 2023
5:00 PM – 6:30 PM(ET)

Black Studies scholars often have sought to recover Black voices that have been excluded, marginalized, or erased from mainstream scholarship as a form of reclamation, and as a corrective to research that excludes Black people, and therefore distorts, our understanding of the world in which we live. But what if some of these Black voices don’t want to be found? What claims to privacy do the dead have? This talk offers answers to these questions and will be part of a collection of essays Professor Crabtree is writing on ethical praxis and the craft of writing in Black Studies.

Septima the Play: a Conservation with Dr. Patricia Williams Dockery 

Thaddeus Street Jr. Education Center
Septima P. Clark Auditorium (Rm 118)
25 St. Philip Street, Charleston, SC
Wednesday, March 22, 2023
5:00PM – 6:30 PM (ET)

Join African American Studies affiliate faculty Dr. Nakeisha Daniel and Gary Marshall of the Theatre Department in a conversation with Dr. Patricia Williams Dockery, the former director of the Avery Research Center, regarding her play, SeptimaSeptima, currently showing at PURE Theatre, depicted the life of Septima Clark. Explore Dockery’s process for depicting Septima Clark on the stage and the importance of her life on African American life in Charleston, South Carolina. 

 

Should Harvard Still Own My Enslaved Ancestors?

Thaddeus Street Jr. Education Center
Septima P. Clark Auditorium (Rm 118)
25 St. Philip Street, Charleston, SC
Tuesday, March 21, 2023
5:30PM – 7:00 PM(ET)

The Center for the Study of Slavery in Charleston has invited Tamara Lanier to deliver a lecture about her enslaved ancestors, whose naked or partially clothed bodies were forcibly photographed in 1850 outside of Columbia, SC, for a Harvard scientist, Louis Agassiz. Agassiz supported racist theories of polygenesis, and Harvard currently owns these photographs. You may be familiar with the court case Lanier has brought against Harvard to obtain the rights to these images. Her case foregrounds the need for legislation that protects the cultural property of descendants of chattel slavery in the United States. I hope you can attend and hear her speak about the importance of her family’s history and the ethical and legal matters regarding who gets to own, display, and view historical artifacts of slavery.

 

Afro-Feminism and Resistance in Brazil

Stern Center Ballroom
71 George Street, Charleston, SC
Monday, March 20, 2023
4:00 PM – 5:30 PM
 (ET)
A sociologist, professor, feminist, and Black women’s movement activist. She holds a Master in Social Sciences from the Faculty of Philosophy and Human Sciences of the Federal University of Bahia – FFCH-UFBH. Ms. Reis is the co-founder of the Mahin Collective Black Women’s Organization for Human Rights. She was the General Ombudsman of the Public Defender’s Office of Bahia between 2015-2019 and was elected in 2022 as the 3rd alternate Federal Deputy of the State of Bahia for the Worker’s Party

Septima P. Clark Exhibition Opening

CofC Celebrates Life of Activist Septima Clark With New Exhibit, Mural

Many achievements of Charleston native, educator and activist Septima Poinsette Clark (1898-1987) took place at locations on and near the College of Charleston campus. Clark was born at 105 Wentworth Street in 1898 (now part of the CofC campus) and was a student and later a teacher at the Avery Normal Institute (now the Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture at the College of Charleston) at 125 Bull St.. In 1978, the College, during a ceremony in the Cistern Yard, awarded Clark an honorary doctorate in humane letters for 40 years of work as an educator, civil rights leader and advocate for the underprivileged.

Read more at CofC Today

Septima P. Clark Auditorium (Rm 118)
Thaddeus Street Jr Education Center
25 St. Philip Street, Charleston, SC 29401

African American Studies Faculty Book Celebration

Join us as we celebrate recent publications from our African American Studies faculty:

Thursday, February 16th at 5 pm
Thaddeus Street Jr. Education Center * Septima Clark Auditorium
25 St. Philip Street, Room 118

origin story: poems by Gary Jackson

origin story outlines a family history of distant sisters, grieving mothers and daughters, and alcoholic fathers. These poems take us from Kansas to Korea and back again in an attempt to reconnect with estranged family and familial ghosts divided by years of diaspora. An interrogation of cultural and personal myths, origin story wrestles with the questions: Who will remember us? How do we deal with the failures of memory? Whose stories are told?

My Soul Is a Witness: The Traumatic Afterlife of Lynching by Mari N. Crabtree

Black southerners often shielded their loved ones from the most painful memories of local lynchings with strategic silences but also told lynching stories about vengeful ghosts or a wrathful God or the deathbed confessions of a lyncher tormented by his past. They protested lynching and its legacies through art and activism, and they mourned those lost to a mob’s fury. They infused a blues element into their lynching narratives to confront traumatic memories and keep the blues at bay, even if just for a spell. Telling their stories troubles the simplistic binary of resistance or submission that has tended to dominate narratives of Black life and reminds us that amid the utter devastation of lynching were glimmers of hope and an affirmation of life.

My Soul Is a Witness traces the long afterlife of lynching in the South through the traumatic memories it left in its wake. She unearths how African American victims and survivors found ways to live through and beyond the horrors of lynching, offering a theory of African American collective trauma and memory rooted in the ironic spirit of the blues sensibility—a spirit of misdirection and cunning that blends joy and pain.