Tag: black-history
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Sankofa: Learning from Our History for a Better Tomorrow
I fear we don’t process the past, even the recent one, enough to properly understand and grieve to create and reimagine better and sustainable futures. As I learn about the meanings and history of the adinkra symbols, I realize one that resonates with me at this stage of my life: Sankofa. We must look back…
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Shakespearean Scholar to Afrofuturist
While I was privileged to live in a predominantly Black neighborhood and went to public schools where most of my teachers and staff looked like me, and I gravitated to Black film and TV, I was still profoundly impacted by the white-washed American curriculum.