The Sankofa Projects

Sunday, June 5, 2022

PITTMAN OFFERS PORT HAMPTON LECTURE "UNBURIED: RESSURECTING MEMORY, CONFRONTING MORALITY AND REMEMBERING THE AFRICANS AND THE MASSACRE ON THE MIDDLE PASSAGE"

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“UNBURIED: Resurrecting Memory , Confronting Morality and Remembering the Africans & the Massacre on the Middle Passage” By Chadra P...

SANKOFA'S 11TH ANNUAL REMEMBRANCE CEREMONY AT FORT MORROE NATIONAL MONUMENT

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Thursday, November 11, 2021

Pittman orchestrates ceremony to honor the 1619 African Landing and serves as a Panelist with esteemed guest Nikole Hannah Jones at Fort Monroe National Monument

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27 years ago, I began my life’s work at the African Burial Ground National Monument giving voice to the Africans enslaved in colonial New ...
Thursday, October 14, 2021

Pittman delivers the Indigenous Peoples' Day 2021 Lecture at Brandeis University ~ "I, Too, Am America: Stolen Land and the Forced Migration of the African and the Native"~October 2021

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Sunday, October 10, 2021

Pittman as Keynote for 44th Annual Organization for the Study of Communication, Language and Gender-October 6-10, 2021

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Thrilled to serve as the Keynote for the 44th OSCLG 2021 Conference. My lecture was "Wearing their Flesh like War: Women Worthy of Wi...
Wednesday, August 4, 2021

Pittman Orchestrates Welcome Ceremony for Association for African American Museums 2021 Virtual Conference, “SUN SOUL SOIL: DIASPORIC BLACKNESS AND JUSTICE IN GLOBAL MUSEUMS”

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I orchestrated the Opening Ceremony and the Calling of Names for the Ancestors for AAAM 2021 Virtual Conference. I included th specific a...
Monday, July 19, 2021

Pittman Orchestrates Governor Northam's "Journey to Juneteenth" Ceremony for the Ancestors at Fort Monroe National Monument June 2021

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My sacred work is rooted in REMEMBRANCE; Remembrance of the Ancestors, Remembrance of critical time periods and in Remembrance of places whi...
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Chadra Dalan
I come from the bloodlines of African & Native people, North Carolinian & Alabamian roots, born & bred in the Bronx, NY. Anthropologist, Published Writer, Activist, Educator, Lecturer. Former Public Educator & Media Coordinator of the Office of Public Interpretation Education of the African Burial Ground Project. My research & activism is centered around Race, Rape, Resistance, Retentions & Remembrance. My work is rooted in Remembrance of the intellectual, spiritual, Ancestors and through tangible monuments which hold memories of our individual and collective past. I create safe spaces for the exchange of ideas around difficult but necessary conversations. I am the Founder and Exec Dir of The Sankofa Projects and 4 E.V.E.R. (In the 4 directions of the Earth, I work to End Violence End Rape)I explore & dismantle systems of oppression. Mother of 2 incredible sons, Womanist, Humanitarian, Intersectional Feminist, Pourer of Libations Shekere player, Anti-Rape Activist, Wildlife Volunteer, WarriorTwo Spirit, Human Rights Activist. I stand at the crossroads of race, gender, sexuality & speak out against multiple forms of oppression.Seeker of justice and believer in our shared humanity.
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