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Catawba Art Exhibit | Palmetto Scene
Catawba Art Exhibit | Palmetto Scene

Video

Grades: 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12

In the late 1990s, the Catawba Nation received federal recognition. Photojournalist and Filmmaker Catherine Bauknight set out to document the revival of the tribe. Her photo essay exhibit at the...
Fahamu Pecou Talks Remix Exhibit | Palmetto Scene
Fahamu Pecou Talks Remix Exhibit | Palmetto Scene

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Grades: 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12

Columbia Museum of Art’s latest exhibit, Remix, is a wide variety of works that look at what many African American artists practice – a retelling of ideas from their own perspective. One of the...
Hip Hop/Rap | Gullah Music
Hip Hop/Rap | Gullah Music
Episode 12

Audio

Grades: PreK Kindergarten 1 2

African call-and-response patterns and improvisation survived the Middle Passage and became two of the basic elements of one of today’s most popular forms of music. In the 1970s, rap music began in...
African Music | Gullah Music
African Music | Gullah Music
Episode 1

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Grades: PreK Kindergarten 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12

Music was an important tradition in Africa centuries before Africans were brought to America. Singing was a part of everyday life when people were at work, worship or play. The drum was the most...
Charleston Basketweavers | Digital Traditions 4
Charleston Basketweavers | Digital Traditions
Episode 4

Video

Grades: 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12

Excerpt from 1986 USC News production. Dale Rosengarten discusses sweetgrass basketry as a part of the Charleston tourist trade, as well as a one of the most highly recognized African-American art...
Family Across the Sea, Part 3 | SCETV Specials (1990) 3
Family Across the Sea, Part 3 | SCETV Specials (1990)
Episode 3

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Grades: 3 4 5 6 7 8

Family Across the Sea, Part 3 Anthropologist Joe Opala has studied the history of slavery from the African side of the ocean. He has tracked a remarkable series of connections that end in Charleston...
Family Across the Sea, Part 2 | SCETV Specials (1990) 2
Family Across the Sea, Part 2 | SCETV Specials (1990)
Episode 2

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Grades: 3 4 5 6 7 8

Family Across the Sea, Part 2 A young black scholar named Lorenzo Turner began to research Gullah culture and language. Folklorists and historians who had studied this culture before Turner and...