Ashes to Ashes (2019)

America has yet to heal from the trauma of its darkest era and Winfred Rembert is living proof of that Rembert who lived on a plantation joined the civil rights movement as a teen and was put to work on a chain gang is a rare survivor of a lynching attempt Decades later he still carries the scars That lynching is on my back and its dragging me down even today he says As he etches the history bloodsoaked and cruel into leatherwork fellow artist Dr Shirley Jackson Whitaker organizes a different kind of ceremony to search for healing Its not just black history she says This is American history