The filmmaker and religious scholar China Galland has posted three minutes of footage shot last spring in the historic Farmer Street African American cemetery in Newnan, Georgia:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2jnt1qL5MI
Several attendees at the national meeting of the Alliance for Truth and Racial Reconciliation were gathered to reflect on the cemetery. Milagros Phillips offers a song and prayer as she pours out libations. I briefly discuss the imagery in what is perhaps the most beloved of all Zambian Ngoni songs, "Kalelo Makolo Athu Anasauka Kwambiri" (Long ago our ancestors suffered terribly), a haunting remembrance of long-lost community members who were sold off for cloth in the time of the slave trade.
China is directing and producing what promises to be a most remarkable film, Resurrecting Love, about struggles to safeguard community access to a historic African American cemetery in Texas:
http://redroom.com/member/china-galland/media/videos/resurrecting-love-the-cemetery-that-can-heal-a-nation
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