Stirring the Ashes is an educational experience led by De and Jimmie Lee Kirkpatrick.

Since we began sharing our story over a decade ago, we came to the realization that our story—an American story and a Southern story—was a healing story. Our story aims, through an interactive process of film viewing and discussion, to reveal the truth about American enslavement—stirring the ashes of our past, present and future.

As a Black man and a white man, together we first tell a clear synopsis of our story, utilizing either a “sizzle reel,” a short film (approximately 13 minutes), or showing the full feature documentary, “A Binding Truth,” (approximately 90 minutes), and then we “get out of the way” and listen. Our story elicits people’s own stories about slavery as they struggle with and react to the truths about our own ancestors’ stories. We facilitate customized questions for the audience. We engage the audience with Q&A.

We hope to share this with you through one of our educational experiences

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