Charleston’s International African American Museum Prepares for Its Debut
Written by Black Hot Fire Network on March 21, 2022
Until we reckon with history, we’re not going to be free,” Bryan Stevenson, founder of the Equal Justice Initiative, has said, comparing historical discourse in America unfavorably to that of countries like Germany, South Africa, and Rwanda, which have had their reckonings. “I think there’s something better waiting for us that we can’t get to until we talk honestly about our past.”
In 2018 Charleston, routinely voted the number one city in America, did an uncommon thing: It tried to go there, as it were. (This in a . . .
