Join this talk as Adrienne Brooks, former Director of Advancement at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture, returns to the Mississippi Delta in search of a place called New Africa. Guided by the recordings of her great-aunt Hattie Kendrick—born in 1894 in Duncan, just south of Clarksdale—Brooks follows a trail that begins in the late 1800s, when the Kendrick family helped build an independent Black community called Africa at the edge of Clarksdale. 

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