Next Television Broadcast of Bin Yah
July 2, 2008 · Print This Article
SCETV – August 14, 2008 – 10pm
Southern Lens Television Schedule
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Bin Yah: There’s No Place Like Home is a documentary for sale on this website: presented by Justin Nathanson and The ChasDOC Film Society, the film explores the potential loss of important historic African American communities in Mt. Pleasant, S.C due to growth and development. Through the testimonies of the residents themselves, the film explores the culture, the history, the importance of land and the concept of home, giving a voice to those who seldom have had a chance to be heard.
A proposed highway extension threatens to bisect these close-knit neighborhoods of cousins and kinfolk, established by freed slaves and home to generations of their families for hundreds of years. Many residents are artisans and craftspeople, practicing traditional skills including sweetgrass basketmaking, brought over from West Africa and handed down from mothers and fathers to sons and daughters. Today, Mt. Pleasant, South Carolina is the primary place in the U.S. where this grass is harvested and “sewn” into this particular type of basket.
Bin Yah will attempt to preserve – at least on film – the memories of the special places that may be lost forever as the struggle between the real “bin yahs” and the “come yahs” escalates.
When and where will other showings be held? I live in Orlando, Florida and just happened upon this while I was looking up info on Gullah Gullah Island.
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I tell these people relocating, about the Gulluha Geeche history as I knew it then. I now know the story better. Thank you. But I have told them and supported the small African communities that live and thrive here making the sweetgrass baskets. I have a deeper appreciation for your culture and your right to live on the land your great grandparents gave their life to earn and call their own. Do not give it up. I will stand with you to keep it. I will continue to tell your story and your plight to keep your families land to others relocating here. To have respect for you and what you have done with the land. There should be protection for you as there is the old historic homes in downtown Charleston. God Bless you .
Pat Broghamer