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Place, Responsibility, and Sanding on the TEDxAsheville Stage with Sekou Coleman
Welcome to Twice 5 Miles Radio. I’m your host, James Navé, and today my guest is Sekou Coleman.
Sekou Coleman is a community historian, cultural organizer, and one of the speakers appearing on the TEDxAsheville stage in March 2026. For more than three decades, he has worked alongside communities to protect memory, strengthen local decision-making, and resist the quiet erasure that often accompanies development and policy change.
In this conversation, we explore Asheville’s Southside—a historically Black neighborhood shaped by resilience, loss, and renewal—and the invisible victories that…
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