'After Sherman'
Beautifully layered, After Sherman is a story about inheritance and the tension that defines our collective American history, especially Black history. The filmmaker follows his father, a minister, in the aftermath of a mass shooting at his church in Charleston, South Carolina, to understand how communities of descendants of enslaved Africans use their unique faith as a form of survival as they continue to fight for America to live up to its many unfulfilled promises to Black Americans.
"After Sherman serves as both a psalm of thanksgiving and a cry of lamentation for the family legacy he claims – as well as the cultural history he cannot escape."
Marshall Shaffer, The Playlist
The program is curated by Jheanelle Brown.
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