In October, Iyalorixá Valnizia Pereira, Ebomi Marilene Cruz and Ogan Josuel Queiroz traveled from Salvador, Bahia Brazil for an 8-day residency in Winston-Salem and Greensboro, North Carolina, co-sponsored by VOHP. The elders from the Terreiro do Cobre Candomblé community were invited guests of Wake Forest University where they participated, with Rachel Harding, in an activists’ retreat organized by Melanie Harris, director of the program in Food, Health and Ecological Wellbeing and faculty in the School of Divinity. The group also visited historical sites in Greensboro, participated in a tour of Greensboro-area Black farms and community gardens (led by Heber Brown) and met with Wesley and Kenya Morris, Joyce and Nelson Johnson and other leaders of the Beloved Community Center/Faith Community Church. It was a rich and moving trip. The video here is a conversation that Prof. Corey Walker, Dean of the Divinity School, and Prof. Melanie Harris, had with Mãe Val and Pai Josuel about the environmental ethics of Candomblé. Rachel Harding is interpreting.
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