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National Museum of African American History & Culture
Through the African American Lens: Descendant
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Through the African American Lens: Descendant Saturday, January 7, 2023, 2:00 PM, EST Oprah Winfrey Theater Join us for a screening and panel discussion of Descendant, director Margaret Brown’s powerful 2022 documentary about the search for and historic discovery of The Clotilda, the last known ship to arrive in the United States, illegally carrying enslaved Africans, in Mobile, Alabama. After a century of secrecy and speculation, the 2019 discovery of the ship turns attention toward the descendant community of Africatown and presents a moving portrait of a community actively grappling with and fighting to preserve their heritage while examining what justice looks like today. Presented with the Robert F. Smith Family History Center and moderated by Mary Elliott, the Museum’s curator of slavery and freedom, the conversation will include Brown and Dr. Kern Jackson, co-writer and co-producer of the film, alongside descendants Emmett Lewis Sr. and Joycelyn Davis
