06/19/2024
*Mount Hope Commission Juneteenth Program: Whispers from the Water*
*Wednesday June 19th, 6:30 – 8:30 p.m.*
*Cheverly Community Center, 6401 Forest Road, Cheverly, Maryland*
The Mount Hope Commission
invites you to
join us as we commemorate Juneteenth with our special program: *Whispers
from the Water*. Our featured speaker, Kamau Sadiki
, led the
dive team that discovered the Clotilda
, the last
ship to bring captured Africans into the United States.
Mr. Sadiki was featured on the March 2022 cover of National Geographic
magazine and the companion podcast entitled “Into the Depths”, for his
research and underwater documentation of five Transatlantic Era of Africa
Enslavement (TEAE) shipwrecks, including the Clotilda. He was also
featured in the October 2022 documentary film, Descendant, that tells the
story of the Clotilda descendant community of Africatown near Mobile,
Alabama.
He is on the Board of Directors of Diving With A Purpose (DWP) DWP is an organization committed to
resurrecting the stories of shipwrecks involved in the TEAE, and is a
leading international organization that provides education, training and
support for submerged heritage preservation and conservation projects with
a focus on the African Diaspora.
Mr. Sadiki has conducted numerous lectures and presentations on TEAE
shipwrecks, memory and resistance. He has worked on multiple shipwreck
sites around Mozambique Island, Mozambique, South Africa, and shipwrecks in
the NOAA Thunder Bay and Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuaries, and
Biscayne National Marine Park off the southern Florida coast, Cahuita
National Park, Costa Rica and in St. John, US Virgin Islands.
If you are a history lover, or diving enthusiast, you will not want to miss
Mr. Sadiki’s inspiring and engaging presentation.
