Juneteenth Reckoning with Slavery: MN African American History

About This Event

Historic Fort Snelling is screening Juneteenth Reckoning With Slavery: MN African American History. Join us to watch this 40-minute film with a Q&A session to follow.

Co-produced by OMG Studios and the Minnesota Humanities Center, this documentary challenges our understanding of slavery, its impact on Minnesota, and how we reconcile our past by taking viewers on a present-day journey to Ghana, to the quarters of Harriet and Dred Scott, and into conversations with current and future scholars.

The film features Akwamu Traditional Area’s King Odeneho Kwafo Akoto, III and Queen Mother Nana Afrakoma, II, of West Africa, Ghana; St. Paul Mayor Melvin Carter III; MN Humanities CEO Kevin Lindsey; St. Cloud State University American Studies Chair and Minnesota Book Award Winner Dr. Christopher Lehman (MNHS Press author); and Minnesota creative treasures T. Mychael Rambo, Thomasina Petrus, and the voices of the Black Youth Healing Arts Center (BYHAC).