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

REVISED DATE: Branch Meeting and Forum: January 21, 2023 at 1 p.m. EST

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Date

Saturday, Jan 21, 2023 (was formerly the 14th)

Time

1:00 pm – 3:00 pm

Location

Riley Center for Livable Communities (178 Lockwood Dr, Charleston, SC 29403)

Description

The first membership meeting of the year will include a review of branch activities in 2022 and the presentation of the 2023 projected calendar. This will be followed by a community forum on Black Resistance History, Life and Culture – Making Connections. Participants will be asked to share ideas on how we can best explore the history of the struggle of Black Americans ‘to establish and maintain safe spaces, where Black life can be sustained, fortified and respected. Organizations are asked to share information on their programs and projects that can contribute to this year long focus on the topic of Black Resistance in its many forms

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2023 Charleston’s Black Ink Festival

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Black Ink: A Charleston African American Book Festival is the first and only annual celebration of African American literature in the Charleston area. Black Ink serves as a platform to support local Black writers, creating a space for them to share their work, discuss their craft, and expose readers of all ages to the great variety of African-American authors in the area. With the support of community-conscious sponsors Black Ink: A Charleston African American Book Festival will impact the lives of hundreds of readers of all ages

Find out more

Join a film screening of Civil War (or, Who Do We Think We Are) at Charleston County Public Library hosted by Learn from History

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Join for a screening and discussion of the 2021 documentary ‘Civil War (or, Who Do We Think We Are)!

Urgent and complex, Civil War (or, Who Do We Think We Are) travels across the United States, exploring how Americans tell the story of their Civil War. Filmed from the last year of Obama’s presidency through the present, it interweaves insightful scenes and touching interviews filmed North and South, painting a uniquely crafted, multi-faceted portrait of the American psyche and the deep roots of its turbulent times. With delicacy and strength, subtlety and determination, Civil War lays bare a nation in denial, haunted by an embittered past and the stories it refuses to tell.

Time and Date

Tuesday, October 25 at 5:30 – 7:30pm EDT

Location

Charleston County Public Library – Otranto Road Library in the Otranto – Community Room

2261 Otranto Rd, North Charleston, SC 29406

Register Here

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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!

Awakening the Ancestors!

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Awakening the Ancestors!

Join us for a free, live performance of the traditional music of the Gullah Geechee people of the South Carolina Lowcountry. During our time together, we’ll provide music and historical education about ancestral music. Learn about the styles, meaning, and purpose of the Lowcountry spirituals and discuss them with the museum and our co-hosts at Mt. Moriah Baptist Church – North Charleston, SC!

There will be a special performance by the Geechee Gullah Ring Shouters at 3:45 pm!

Program begins at 4:30 p.m.

Date: Saturday, March 18, 2022
Time: 3:45 p.m.

Presented in partnership by the International African American Museum, Mt. Moriah Baptist Church, and the Gullah Geechee Cultural Heritage Corridor Commission. Free and open to the public. All ages.

SCAN to register for this event or visit www.iaammuseum.org/awakening2022.
This is a hybrid event, please plan to attend in-person or virtually!

Black History Month: Resisting Slavery – Special Screening and Q&A With Smithsonian Curators

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Over the past year, Smithsonian readers like you have joined us for virtual live events. Together, we have explored the nation’s history, its triumphs as well as its failings. In our next event, we are turning our attention to powerful stories of resistance—moments when enslaved people acted in defiance—that represent an essential chapter in American history.

Join us for a unique online event featuring a discussion with Smithsonian scholars as well as segments of the just-released Smithsonian Channel documentary series, “One Thousand Years of Slavery.” You’ll gain historical insights from Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture curators Mary Elliott and Paul Gardullo. You’ll also view clips from the television series, which was executive produced by Courtney B. Vance and Angela Bassett, and field producer Najma Nuriddin will share behind-the-scenes perspective on how the documentary came together.

You’ll also have a chance to ask your own questions about these vitally important parts of the history of slavery in a Q&A; CBS News correspondent Errol Barnett will moderate the conversation and pose your queries to our panel of experts.

For Black History Month, join us online on Monday, February 28, at 7 p.m. EST for an evening filled with learning and history.

Register/Buy Tickets

A recording of this presentation will be available to ticketholders via email after the event and will be accessible for on-demand viewing for one week.

Public Program on Coronavirus Impact on African Americans to be Held Sunday, October 31st at 3pm in Mount Pleasant

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For Immediate Release – Oct. 24, 2021
Contact – Michael Allen, 1-843-696-9558


Public Program on Coronavirus Impact on African Americans to be Held Sunday in Mount Pleasant

Mt. Pleasant — The South Carolina African American Heritage Commission will host a public event at 3 p.m. on Sunday, Oct. 31, at the Sweetgrass Cultural Arts Pavilion in Mount Pleasant. SCAAHC will showcase its “Black Carolinians Speak: Portraits of a Pandemic” initiative, an oral history project that captured more than 100 African American voices in South Carolina about the Coronavirus’ impact on their lives.

Highlighting the event will be a panel discussion featuring local authorities in healthcare and African American history, and Charleston residents whose voices were added to the project. The panel will be moderated by Michael Allen, one of the most preiminent historians in Charleston and the South Carolina Lowcountry, renowned for helping develop the Gullah Geechee Cultural Heritage Corridor and the Reconstruction Era National Historical Park. The distinguished panel guests will be:

• Dr. Thaddeus Bell, a Charleston physician in family practice, and founder and CEO of Closing the Gap in Healthcare, a non-profit that provides health education to African Americans and under-served communities to reduce health disparities;
• Dr. Bernard Powers, professor emeritus of history at the College of Charleston and director of its Center for the Study of Slavery;
• Dr. Brigid Sullivan, a local hospitalist physician at East Cooper Medical Center where she also serves as the chief of the Department of Medicine;
• Mrs. Jackie Conyers, Charleston Housing Authority employee whose voice was added to the project.

Since May 2020, SCAAHC’s Portraits of a Pandemic project has captured narratives, interviews, poetry, paintings, photography and other expressions from South Carolinians, including many in Charleston. In July 2021, an exhibit of some of those expressions was installed at the South Carolina Archives and History Center in Columbia and was available for viewing for two months. A virtual version of that exhibit can be found here. The Commission continues to accept submissions at this link, and has expanded the program into 35 counties in North Carolina. A virtual exhibit of both states will be available in the Spring of 2022.

The Sweetgrass Cultural Arts Pavilion is at 99 Harry M. Hallman Jr. Blvd in Mount Pleasant. Seating is limited and CDC protocols for social distancing and mask wearing will be followed. For additional information on this event please contact Michael Allen at 1-843-696-9558.

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“Black Carolinians Speak: Portraits of a Pandemic” was made possible by the generous support of the 1772 Foundation, the Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley Foundation and South Carolina Humanities. Sunday’s program is being held in collaboration with the town of Mount Pleasant.

2021 MOJA Arts Festival September 30th to October 10th

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See listing of events here

2021 MOJA Arts Festival poster, featuring the artwork of Arianne King Comer.

Arianne King Comer, a BFA graduate of Howard University, has been an Artist in Residence in the state of South Carolina since 1995. She is a textile artist creating her work in paintings, wearable art, installation art, environmental art, home deco, as well as social justice.

In 1992, Arianne received the UN/USIS grant to study under the renowned Batik artist Nike Olyani Davis in Oshogbo Nigeria, where her passion for indigo manifested. She was given the Yoruba name of Osun Ronke.

She was owner of Ibile Indigo House on St Helena House ’98-04. In 2004, Arianne traveled to Istanbul, Turkey as a guest artist sponsored by her daughter, a designer/stylist, Nicole King Burroughs. Arianne created one of a kind jean for Mavi Jeans’s. In 2007, she had the opportunity to join The Charleston Rhizome Collective to conduct a textile workshop in batik and indigo at the World Social Forum in Nairobi, Kenya. 2006-7, Arianne was artist in Residence for North Charleston Cultural Affairs Office. In 1999, she was featured in the PBS documentary, “Messengers of the Spirit,” and in 2003 was featured in an Indigo Art segment on HGTV’s “Country Style,” which is still in syndication. She is an active member of Alternate ROOTS, Charleston Rhizome and a designer for Seeking Indigo. Her work is in several traveling exhibitions nationally as well as statewide.