‘This ground is sacred.’ How a new museum reclaims history from horror.
How does ground zero become hallowed ground?
The new International African American Museum in Charleston, South Carolina, is an exercise – rather, an exultation – in the importance of such work.
As the museum’s director of education and engagement for faith-based communities, the Rev. DeMett Jenkins identifies the importance of spiritual healing and community networking in the museum’s development. As a proud “Gullah Geechee girl” and the granddaughter of Esau and Janie Jenkins, local trailblazers in health care and transportation, she appreciates the social justice component of this “sacred space.”
“That’s why the building is lifted 13 feet up, because we didn’t want – the architects didn’t want – to just plant a building on
