November 21, 2020
2020-11-21T13:00:00
McLeod Plantation Historic Site
McLeod Plantation Historic Site
325 Country Club Drive
Charleston, SC 29412
Free, no registration required. Due to COVID-19 restrictions, this event can accommodate 50 guests.
Ukweli: Searching for Healing Truth
Saturday, November 21, 2020
Ukweli is Swahili for "Truth," and the South African Truth and Reconciliation Committee identified four truths: forensic, personal, social, and healing. Our poetry, lecture, and dialogue series seeks healing truth as poet and writer Horace Mungin reads his poetry in a place created to enslave his ancestors. The reading will be followed by black scholars and authors who contextualize the poems. Radio host Osei Chandler moderates discussions around Black perspectives of history that are often minimalized at historic sites and museums.
Establishing the Literary Link: The poem "God's Pen in Their Hands" presents Black women who applied the power of the pen to resist and oppose the oppression and inequal treatment of Black people. Yvette Murray will illustrate how Black women were often the leading literary voices during many of the crucial periods of racial conflict and turmoil such as the lynching and civil rights eras.
Ukweli: Searching for Healing Truth is made possible by the Charleston County Parks Foundation and the generous support of The Joanna Foundation.
