Amistad. So was his path destined to be? The shooting took place on the campus of South Carolina State University, a historically Black institution. We rely on contributions from our viewers and listeners to do our work. “I refuse to let people take away my hope. is a 501(c)3 non-profit news organization. Anchored in in Bakari Seller’s hometown of Denmark, South Carolina, Country illuminates the pride and pain that continues to fertilize the soil of one of the poorest states in the nation. An Untold D-Day Story: A Personal Account, Jazz and Blues Musicians Give Politics a Voice, Political Humor Can Deliver Important Messages, EDITORIAL: The Vote Between Trump, Biden and the Couch, ‘Voting With Purpose’ Event to Feature 10 Top Black Newspapers, Ford’s Theatre Hosts Prominent Voices in Conversation on 2020 Vote, The Power of RBG: Working Out With a Supreme Court Justice, Be a Part of The Washington Informer Legacy. A donation of your choice empowers our journalists to continue the work to better inform, educate and empower you through technology and resources that you use.

The Orangeburg Massacre happened before the younger Sellers was born, but that’s still heavy family history. We live along what’s called the “corridor of shame,” in which kids go to school, and their heating and air don’t work, and their infrastructure is falling apart. Bakari Sellers’ Invisible Black America. It was Bakari Sellers’ father, Cleveland Sellers, a member of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, known as SNCC, convicted of a riot charge and actually spent seven months behind bars. “My Vanishing Country: A Memoir” by Bakari Sellers is published by Amistad/HarperCollins. Not only was he the only person who was incarcerated. Not only did they shoot my father. As a result, young Sellers grew up in the presence of his father’s activist friends, including Julian Bond, Kathleen Cleaver and Stokely Carmichael.

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Part memoir, part historical and cultural analysis, My Vanishing Country is an eye-opening journey through the South's past, present, and future.

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“All the promises that are supposed to be afforded to us are not afforded to us because of color, the low income, or immigrants,” Sellers said in a recent interview while explaining the title of his book. And I grew up in a food desert, meaning that you couldn’t go two to three miles and get fresh fruits and vegetables, meaning that you probably have a higher propensity to have things like diabetes. You think about not just the Orangeburg massacre, but the four little girls in Birmingham. The first time that my father was able to see my sister was actually on the prison yard. Three students were killed.

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But when I think about George Floyd, where we are today, and I think about Ahmaud Arbery and I think about Breonna Taylor, it just goes back even further.

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