By Alan Singer
Social studies educator, Hofstra University (My opinions, of course, are my own.)
Mount Vernon, New York based
Media Magic is collaborating with the National Park Service New York
African Burial Ground
Visitors Center to mark the 25th Anniversary of the Burial Ground’s
rediscovery with a Film Festival. It opens with a screening of the
documentary “Then I’ll Be Free To Travel Home: the Legacy of the NY
African Burial Ground,” Thursday, March 31 at 6 PM at the African Burial
Ground Visitors Center in lower Manhattan. It will be followed by a
Panel Discussion and Filmmaker Q&A. It is recommended that people
arrive by 5:30 PM. The African Burial Ground Visitors Center is located
at 290 Broadway between Duane and Reade Streets. Entrance is through
airport-style security.
In 1991 construction
workers started digging the foundation for a new $300 million federal
government building in lower Manhattan. The project was forced to halt when workers discovered a burial ground with wooden
coffins and human remains. Investigators realized this was a colonial
burial ground for enslaved and free Africans who were not permitted to
be buried in church cemeteries, even if they had converted to
Christianity.
Click here for the full article.
Source: The Huffington Post
No comments:
Post a Comment