The Weeping Time

Saturday on The Local Take, I speak with Brenda Lynne Roberts, a former educator in Savannah who serves on The Weeping Time Commemoration Committee.  I talk with Ms. Roberts about Senate Bill 90 (SB90), which will create a Georgia Commission on African American History and Culture.

This week on WCLK's The Local Take I asked historian Hermina Glass Hill to share with us information about HB 906 which will allow the sale of a portion of historic Butler Island to investors who want to open a brewery. 

WCLK's The Local Take along with Dr. Kwesi deGraft Hanson will present The Weeping Time during the Juneteenth Celebration at the Atlanta History Center on June 15th at 1pm.  Saturday on the show I talked with Ananda Blalock and Trevion King, members of the Andrew and Walter Young YMCA Teen Leadership Council who joined us on the 160th Commemoration trip in March of this year. 

In 2016 we first spoke with Dr. Kwesi deGraft-Hanson about The Weeping Time. This was the largest single sale of humans in American history, which took place in Savannah.  Since then, Dr. deGraft-Hanson has hosted commemoration ceremonies in Atlanta and Savannah.