Read more“Racism, xenophobia and unfair discrimination have spawned slavery, when human beings have bought and sold and owned and branded fellow human beings as if they were so many beasts of burden.”
– Desmond Tutu
2. Tobacco Merchant’s House – I never knew my mother
‘The whisper that my master was my father, may or may not be true’ Frederick Douglass Location: Entrance, Tobacco Merchant’s House, Miller Street Running times: Every 15 minutes between 9am-5.30pm Monday-Friday Performed by: Tawona Sithole as Frederick Douglass Paksie...Tobacco Burn
Decades before the Civil War, the actions of a brutal overseer spark the fire of revolution on a Southern tobacco farm. TOBACCO BURN is a short film based on a real American Slave Narrative and chronicles true events, creating a portrait of one community’s fight...Read more“To deny people their human rights is to challenge their very humanity”
– Nelson Mandela
HOW DO YOU SEE ME- – March 21 – World Down Syndrome Day – #HowDoYouSeeMe
Talking About Discrimination, Race and Civil Rights
Against a backdrop of significant civil rights gains, a black American president and major demographic shifts, how do we think about civil rights and racial justice in the 21st century? Young people speak out about what discrimination, affirmative action and civil...Read more“Happiness may have different meanings for different people. But we can all agree that it means working to end conflict, poverty and other unfortunate conditions in which so many of our fellow human beings live.”
– Ban Ki-moon