Feedback Needed! Share your experiences, thoughts, and satisfaction with the Charleston Police Department

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What

Feedback Needed!
Share your experiences, thoughts, and satisfaction with the Charleston Police Department

When/Where

Option 1: Saturday, May 20, 10 AM – 12 PM
Bees Landing Recreation Center, 1580 Ashley Gardens Blvd, 29414

Option 2: Thursday, May 25, 5:30 PM – 7:30 PM Main Library Auditorium, 68 Calhoun Street 29401

Programs are moderated by Bob Kahle and Thuane B. Fielding

This will be a safe, supportive environment. Refreshments will be provided.

Hosts

*Hosted by the Racial Bias Audit External Review & Assessment Team.

Cannot attend?

If unable to attend, share your thoughts at cpdracialbiasfeedback@gmail.com or 843-619-7342.

April and May 2023 Calendar of Events

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April 13 -Tri County Community Education Meeting, Charleston Shared Future: Charleston Forum, Trident Technical College 7000 Rivers Ave, Building 920, North Charleston, SC 29406

April 18- Under Represented Communities National Park Service Grant Program Call, contact Chloe Stuber,  stuberc@charleston-sc.gov

April 18-20 – Charleston County Superintendent Search Committee Community Input Sessions see:  ccsdschools.com/superintendentsearch2023

April  20-23 – Charleston Jazz Festival, see www.charlestonjazz.com

April 29, 2023- Charleston Human Affairs and Racial Conciliation Workshop, 9 am -12 noon, City Council Chambers City Hall, *0 Broad Street, Charleston, SC

April 30 – Submission deadline for Proposals and Posters for the 2023 Annual ASALH Conference see www.asalh.org/call-for-propsals

May 3-6- Honoring our Ancestors Events, Anson Street African Burial Ground Project. see wwwasabgproject.com/a-memorial-for-the-ancestors

May 20- Charleston Area Branch ASALH Meeting and Forum, 2-4 pm , Riley Center for Sustainable Communities, 176 Lockwood Ave, Charleston, SC

Update about ASALH National Dues

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Greetings Branch Member, 

As you are aware, ASALH is providing an incentive to those who join or renew by December 31, 2022.  Advance notices like this one have been sent to branch members to ensure all can take advantage of the benefit of paying the 2022 dues rate for 2023. 

All branches are asked to contact former members, new members, and those who are not current members of your branch to share this offer with them. Use this incentive in the correspondence that you are using during the renewal period that began on October 1. 

The new dues rates has been posted to the website for your reference. Dues paid through the website will be processed at the 2022 rate through December 31, 2022. If your branch collects national dues, please submit your payment to them as soon as possible.  Branches have been requested to submit the payment for all members taking advantage of this incentive by December 19.  Consider gifting a membership to a family member or friend. Share information about ASALH membership as you network with during the holiday season. 

Here is the JOIN page on the ASALH website. Membership benefits, mail in membership enrollment forms and the link to purchase membership online can be found here. 

The vision that Dr. Woodson had for our association in 1915 is as important now as it was then. Too many people do not know our rich history and its importance in shaping our communities and positively impacting our youth. Although through his efforts there is more information available, our role in being leaders in teaching and training remains important.  Your membership in the ASALH family ensures that the work to promote, research, preserve, interpret and disseminate information about Black life, history and culture to the global community will continue.

The Life and Lore of Sterling A. Brown: Celebrating Poetry, Prose, and Music

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A virtual symposium at Williams College, October 19-21, 2022

The Life and Lore of Sterling A. Brown: Celebrating Poetry, Prose, and Music, will be happening next week, October 20-21, 2022. Keynote speakers will be Dr. Imani Perry and Dr. Paula Giddings. There will also be panel sessions, music performances, a table read from the play “Brown, Sterling” by Vantile E. Harris, and a closing with the Cornelius Eady Trio band. Find out more information about the lineup and to register click here: https://specialcollections.williams.edu/sab/.

Prof. Sterling A. Brown (‘22) was a scholar, educator, poet, critic, and jazz and blues aficionado. Considered the “Dean of African-American Literature,” Sterling A. Brown was foundational in framing the African-American literary tradition, its advancement as a field of scholarly study, and for creating and inspiring discourse around folklore as a Black aesthetic. This symposium is two-fold, as it will mark the much anticipated opening of the Sterling A. Brown papers as well as celebrate his centennial graduation from Williams College. The symposium will engage local communities,  writers,  scholars, and performing artists for a multidisciplinary conversation on Sterling A. Brown and African-American cultural production. 

Serve your community. Become a poll worker.

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Our democracy depends on hundreds of thousands of ordinary people who act as poll workers to make sure elections run smoothly and everyone’s vote is counted. But during the pandemic, we’re facing an unprecedented shortage of poll workers that could mean closed polling places and long delays during the November election.

Thus, we urge folk to visit Power the Polls, an initiative to recruit poll workers. Sign up to Power the Polls today, to help make sure we have a safe, fair, efficient election for all voters.

Press Release for 2022 Middle Passage Remembrance Program

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“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.”

––From the film Sankofa (1993)

On Saturday, June 11, 2022, The Charleston Branch ASALH Remembrance Committee will host the 25th Annual Remembrance Program on Sullivan’s Island, SC from 9:00am – 1:00pm.

The annual commemoration, held the second Saturday of every June, provides an opportunity for members of African Diaspora communities to collectively remember the countless Africans — men, women, and children — who were kidnapped, sold, shipped and died along the route from Africa to the Americas. We believe that by remembering, we honor and restore the humanity of those nameless, faceless Africans. We continue the process of healing from the fear, pain, guilt and shame of the experience that continues to traumatize the African descended community today. After all, if we don’t remember them, who will?!

We also honor and commemorate those who survived the Transatlantic trafficking of African people and we stand upon their strength, courage and determination to overcome obstacles of enormous magnitude.

The program begins promptly at 9:15am in the Fort Moultrie Auditorium with greetings from ASALH Remembrance Committee Coordinator Regina Williams. Donald West (History & Humanities Department, Trident Technical College, No. Charleston, SC) will speak on the “Middle Passage, Myths and Realities.” The program includes a drum procession to the Beach and back to the “Bench by the Road” for remarks by Charleston ASALH President Jerome Harris, Marcus McDonald (Charleston Black Lives Matter) and from other community members.

At 12:00pm EST, the Libation Ceremony conducted by Yoruba Priestess OsunWonuola EfunLayo, will be held in conjunction with various locations, including: Brooklyn, NY; Washington, DC; Georgetown, SC; Hampton, VA; New Orleans, LA; Houston, TX; Los Angeles, San Francisco and Oakland, CA; Montgomery, AL; Miami, FL; Detroit, MI. Tributes are also held internationally in locations in West Africa, The Caribbean and South and Central America.

The program and gathering is free and open to the public; all who wish to attend are welcome. Attendees are encouraged to bring fresh flowers as an offering and to be dressed in white.

For those unable to attend a scheduled Remembrance/Tribute to the Ancestors program, we encourage you to gather with friends and family and reflect upon the occasion.

  • For additional information, visit Charleston Middle Passage Remembrance on Facebook.
  • Sponsored by Charleston Branch ASALH Remembrance Committee – Website: www.chsasalh.com & The National Parks Service – Fort Moultrie.
  • The Charleston Remembrance Program is a member of the International Coalition to Commemorate the African Ancestors of the Middle Passage (ICCAAMP). Website: www.remembertheancestors.com

Author Talk: A Conversation with Dr. Maxine Smith-Every Thursday starting April 21 at 5:30 p.m.

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Join us for a conversation with Dr. Maxine Smith on her book The Midnight Mayor of Charleston (The Henry Smith Story). Like the book and told in six chapters, this discussion series will take place at six different branches with each location mirroring a different chapter and featuring appearances from leaders and members of the community. Space will be limited. Call your branch to register for this event today!

Ukweli: Searching for Healing Truth

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Ukweli is the Swahili word for truth. This book meets this moment in America as a healing truth to overcome the trauma of slavery and the decades of violence that followed it. The personal accounts and insights from forty-five writers and poets will educate White Americans about the systematic racial bias employed to stymie African American progress.

Ukweli provides insight into the struggles Black people have faced as they’ve made substantial contributions to America, and helped to define its soul. It shows a part of American history often overlooked or misunderstood. Inspired by a poetry, lecture, and dialogue series of the same name organized by poet Horace Mungin in 2020 at Charleston’s McLeod Plantation.

Ukweli: Searching for Healing Truth

Ukweli, Searching for Healing Truth: Hakim Abdul-Ali • Marcus Amaker • Kim Nesta Archung • Steve Bailey • William P. Baldwin • Al Black • James M. Brailsford III • Millicent E. Brown • Vicki Callahan • Karen Chandler • Portia E. Cobb • Tim Conroy • Sara Makeba Daise • Heather L. Hodges • Damon Fordham • Adrienne Troy Frazier • Herb Frazier • Savannah J. Frierson • Shawn Halifax • Jonathan Haupt • Stephen G. Hoffius • Gloria Holmes • Josephine Humphreys  • Gary Jackson • DeMett E. Jenkins  • Marnishia Jenkins-Tate • Patricia Bligen Jones  • Ed Madden • Susan Madison • Joseph McGill Jr. • Ray McManus • Karen Meadows • Kennae Miller • Horace Mungin • Porchia Moore • Yvette R. Murray • Hampton R. Olfus Jr. • Adam Parker • Bernard E. Powers Jr. • Elizabeth Robin • Aïda Rogers • Margaret Seidler • Teresa Speight • Jennie L. Stephens • Kieran “Kerry” Taylor • Ronda Taylor • LaTisha Vaughn • Marjory Wentworth • Ernest L. Wiggins • Treva Williams