The Netflix film Descendant is backed by the Obamas’ Higher Ground Productions.
cemented its ban on critical race theory into its administrative code in 2021, putting teachers' jobs at risk if they discuss issues like enslavement.
Brown said once her film came out, teachers sent her photos of their classroom watching the documentary in class. "It's so sad that showing a film about history, and retelling with a historical corrective, will be considered a subversive act right now," she said. Historic photo of Cudjoe Kazoola Lewis, one of the last survivors of the "Clotilda." Photo: Courtesy of NetflixAuthor Zora Neale Hurston interviewed Cudjo Lewis, one of the last Clotilda survivors, in 1927.Hurston recorded his story verbatim in his vernacular language, but she never saw her book about Cudjo published.
"Barracoon" was finally published in 2018, well after Hurston's death, generating more interest in Africatown.They walk around the cemetery where family members are buried. Much of the area is surrounded by companies the community says cause pollution and cancer. Descendants this month met with officials from the EPA in Washington to discuss environmental challenges in Africatown.Descendants are working to raise money to build a center in Africatown to tell their story.
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