We return to the Mobile County Training School to record parts of the spirit of our ancestors festival. We spoke with organizer joscelyn davis. The spread of our ancestor festival is a day set aside to commemorate the descendants of the clotilda. There are festivals that started back in the eighties from the original founders of the descendants association, and i guess it stopped for a while, so i decided to start it up again. I was reading doctor natalie robertsons book, the slave ship clotilda, and the makings of africatown, thats how i came up with the title. I was looking for a title but a lot of things werent ringing a bell, but when i read her book i said, all, while spirit of our ancestors just jumped at me. You greeted everyone, and then there is a point when you had descendants speak. How did you come up with your program . Well, growing up here in africatown and attending Union Missionary baptist church, there was a bus of cudjo lewis in front of our church all my life. Back
Festival is a day to set aside to commemorate the descendents of the clotilda. There were festivals that started back in the 1980s from the original founders of the descendents association, and i guess it stopped for a while, so i decided to start it up again. And i was reading the book, the flagship clotilda and the makers of africatown. That is how i came up with the title. I was looking for a title, but you know, a lot of things were not ringing a bell. When i was reading her book, i was like, state of our ancestors just jumped at me. You greeted everyone and there was a point where you had descendents speak. How did you come up with your program . Well, growing up here in africatown and attending the Union Missionary baptist church, there was a bust of cudjoe lewis in front of our church all of my life. Back in 2002, that bust was destroyed by some kids acting up, and they decided to vandalize, and later, they put up a Historical Marker, and this Historical Marker had the founders
Foul play involved. Reporter dive teams searched overnight. Ultimately the body was found in about 6 feet of water not far from where he fell in. The family still has questions about how it happened. We really dont know. There are things that dont add up in this situation. This is the second rounding at the lake in a matter of days. Reporter lifejackets are handed out to each boat renter here, he was not wearing one. It is not uncommon at all. We have lifeguards that staff the beach and officers patrolling the lake. Reporter like his family said, he had only begun to tap his potential as a jockey and as a young man. He was a really special sad family. Again, this was the second drowning death on this lake in the last 5 days. Officials want to remind people to wear life vests and take all necessary precautions when out on the water. Julie . So sad. And livermore, thank you. Also tonight, we are learning more about the 14year old boy who drowned its in San Francisco bay at crissey field
Compared to yesterday at this time at concord. And you can see double digits for many, including fairfiel ore, sfo, oakland, hayward, Mountain View and san jose has an issue there. Theyre not reporting but maybe theyll get it fixed. Theres your wind, west southwest. Vacaville and toward davis. Out of the upper 60s, out of the 70s. And low clouds are back. And theyre back in a big day. And i dont think theyre going anywhere for a couple of days. Back in the 50s and 60s. 70s and 80s for most. 4 31. Sal is here. Super commute time . Yes, it is, steve. It is the commute from the area of fairfield to vacaville, american canyon. Vallejo. Heading out west. Looks pretty good so far. No major issues. A little slowin world. And right now, can still do that. No problems on the richmond, san rafael bridge. And marin county looks good. Its taking about 20 minutes to drive from the carquinez bridge to oaklands macarthur maze. And theres a slight delay. Lets go back to the desk. Thank you, sal. A dyn
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