Eroding History: How Climate Change Affects Black Cemeteries and Resting Places

February is Black History Month! In the first “It’s More Than History” lecture of 2024, learn about how climate change affects Black cemeteries and resting places. André Chung and Sean Yoes talk about their film, Eroding History, produced by Rona Kobel, André Chung and Sean Yoes. This lecture is one of three sponsored by the Baltimore National Heritage Area and presented by The Peale. Additional lectures will be presented online on March 22 and April 12. All are presented for free. Catch up on lectures on The Peale’s YouTube channel.

Presenter: André Chung, director of Eroding History, is an award-winning photojournalist and portrait photographer. He is the recipient of the 2021 Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award for Domestic Photography, and he has also received the George Polk Award, and the Sigma Delta Chi award. A longtime award-winning photojournalist at The Baltimore Sun for more than a decade, he was twice named the Times Mirror Journalist of the Year. André’s work is housed in the permanent collections at the History Miami Museum and the Smithsonian Institute’s National Museum of African American History and Culture.

Presenter: Sean Yoes, the co-producer, and co-writer of Eroding History, is a native of West Baltimore and has worked in television, film and newspapers during a career in media, which has spanned more than 30 years. He has been honored for his work by Baltimore City Paper, Baltimore Magazine, the Baltimore Sun, the Association of Black Media Workers, the National Newspaper Publishers Association and the Maryland, Delaware, Washington D.C. Press Association. He is the former Baltimore editor and columnist for the AFRO American Newspapers. Yoes is also author of, Baltimore After Freddie Gray: Real Stories from One of America’s Great Imperiled Cities. He is founder of The Black River Film Project.

“Go back and fetch it”. We must look back to the past so that we may understand how we became what we are. and move forward to a better future.

Registrants will receive a Zoom link two days before the presentation.