In this edition of Social Justice Café, former public educator for the New York African Burial Ground Project and Creator of Sankofa's International Day of Remembrance, Chadra Pittman will give voice to the untold history around the Middle Passage and acknowledge the ancestors who perished on that horrific voyage.  She will highlight the voices of Zora Neale Hurston, James Baldwin, Toni Morrison, Margaret Walker & Fredrick Douglas, exposing the neglected narratives of the enslaved and freedom fighters as an effort to combat the erasure of Black history. Pittman’s works to ensure that these Ancestors, the inhumanity they experienced, and their untold story are etched in our memory for generations to come.  We must remember the millions lost in the Middle Passage, we must tell the full and complete story of slavery, and we must recognize as Archbishop Desmond Tutu reminds us that “our humanity is bound up in each other’s.

Chadra is the Founder and Executive Director of The Sankofa Projects and 4 E.V.E.R., (End Violence End Rape). She is also pursuing her Masters in Anthropology of Peace and Human Rights at UAB.