Arshley Emile News Today

Premieres Monday, June 26, 2023 at 11 p.m. on KPBS TV / PBS App. Filmmaker Jon-Sesrie Goff returns to the coastal South Carolina land that his family purchased after emancipation. His desire to explore his Gullah/Geechee roots leads to a poetic investigation of Black inheritance, trauma, and generational wisdom, amidst the tensions that have shaped American history. In the wake of recent Southern violence, "After Sherman" is a reclamation of Black life and space.

By Timothy Cahill ’16 M.A.R. Following the 2015 murders of nine Black church members by a white gunman at Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, S.C., the Rev. Dr. Norvel Goff, Sr. ’91 M. Div. had to call on everything he’d learned, seen, and held in faith for 65 years to serve as interim pastor to the traumatized congregation.