Bakari Sellers, "My Vanishing Country"
Lectures in History
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🗓️ 6 February 2022
⏱️ 51 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This week, former Charleston, South Carolina Mayor, Joseph Riley, and Professor Kerry Taylor, |
| 0:09.0 | co-teach a course at the Citadel Military College, looking at why a new African-American |
| 0:13.6 | History Museum is being built in the city. They're joined by author and former state representative, |
| 0:19.2 | Bacari Sellers. My father stayed in prison for about a month while his bond was denied. |
| 0:25.2 | He was housed on death row. |
| 0:26.8 | They deemed him to be an outside agitator until he was granted a bond later in between |
| 0:32.9 | the night of February 8th, 68, and the time of my father's trial, all the officers who fired shots into the |
| 0:38.6 | group of students were tried and they were all found not guilty. |
| 0:41.5 | The former South Carolina State Representative also discusses his political career. |
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| 1:21.5 | is as follows to honor the untold stories of the African American journey |
| 1:30.3 | at one of our countries' most sacred sites. |
| 1:33.3 | And these stories continue to unfold. |
| 1:36.3 | McCarrie Sellers is today's guest speaker. |
| 1:40.3 | He is a talented storyteller, |
| 1:42.3 | my banishing country, and I hope you all to see this, |
| 1:47.0 | my Vanishing Country, which was published in 2020, |
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