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Better Together 4 NC

October 26, 2023 @ 6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
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Please join BT4NC as we watch and listen to Marcia Herman-Giddens share her experiences growing up in segregated Birmingham, Alabama. We will provide refreshments to enjoy before and after her presentation. You may also view from home through Zoom.
Zoom Link:
 https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84981912080?pwd=V1BBRkE1NFl3cG0wc0RwajgzS1NKQT09
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St. Matthew
1629 Bennett Street
Unloose My Heart
“This book is more than a memoir set against the backdrop of Jim Crow and the civil rights movement; it is the work of a woman of conscience writing in the twenty-first century. Haunted by the past, her prose is a journey of exploration and discovery, full of angst, sorrow, and joy, as it seeks a mending. Her research unearthed an extensive history of slaveholding, arrogance, cruelty, trauma, and fear, forcing her to scrutinize the impact of this legacy in her life, as well as her debt to the enslaved people who suffered and were exploited at her ancestors’ hands.”
Speaker Bio:
Marcia Edwina Herman-Giddens was born in Washington, DC, to a Pennsylvania father and a south Florida mother. In 1947, the family moved to Birmingham, Alabama, arriving when the first bombings of African American establishments had begun. As Marcia grew up, she was profoundly affected by her exposure to the wrongs of Jim Crow, the ongoing atrocities, and pervasive injustice. Later, as a young mother, she and her then-husband participated in Birmingham’s Civil Rights Movement. 
 
Herman-Giddens attended St John’s College in Annapolis, Duke University, and the University of North Carolina, receiving her DrPH there in 1994. Just as the political climate of her childhood inspired her interest in racial justice and genealogy, her educational and life experiences fostered her love of books, nature, gardening, and the wide world of adventure. Dr. Herman-Giddens spent her career years in North Carolina, in the areas of  medicine, public health, research, scientific writing, and advocacy, primarily involving children. Her scientific papers have been published in numerous medical journals and books.
 
More recently, Herman-Giddens has turned her research and writing skills to her family ancestral history. Her debut book, Unloose My Heart: A Personal Reckoning with the Twisted Roots of My Southern Family Tree, interweaves her experiences in Birmingham’s perilous apartheid world with an examination of her maternal ancestors’ slaveholding history.
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Date:
October 26, 2023
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6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
Event Category:
Community and Workshops

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St. Matthew
1629 Bennett Street
Raleigh,
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