Black History All Year Long: Focus on Women

Fifty-two years after the first Black History Month, the full integration of Black history and culture into the American narrative is long overdue. This series, focused specifically on honoring and acknowledging Black women, begins in February but continues throughout 2021. For much of America’s history, Black bodies, especially Black women’s bodies, have been exploited, commodified, and objectified. Join us for four virtual discussions focused on celebrating, respecting, and raising awareness about Black women.

In this fourth conversation of the Black History Month series, we will focus on Black burial spaces, which have become a public policy issue nationwide. Remains are being disinterred, discovered, and disregarded, and in other cases, burial sites are overgrown and nearly inaccessible. During this virtual session, we will take a video tour of local burial spaces and then hear from leading voices, all women, who have experience with this topic. We will talk about burial spaces in the state of South Carolina, what’s happening nationwide, and share specific things that you can do to support this very important community initiative.