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The Mount Hope Commission: Juneteenth Celebration
Whispers from the Water
Wednesday, June 19th: 6:30 p.m. - 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.
Guest Speaker
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, Descendent, 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. All ages welcome.