Drowned In History

S1E2: (You Can't) Forget the Dead: Early Radicals, Alternate Histories and Dead Mayors, w/ Coriana Close


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The final resting place of Marcus Winchester, the first mayor of Memphis, lies unmarked, underneath a city garage. Why has his memory been erased by "the infrastructure of our city?," asks artist Coriana Close.
Was it because he was married to a woman of color? Associated with radical thinkers? Spoke French?
What does the practice of discarding the dead and their stories tell us about who we are, who we could be and what we could have been?
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Drowned In HistoryBy The OAM Network