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Changing minds with Black History Month
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So as part of my background in theatre,
I
pursued it more academically and I got my PhD
in looking specifically at
the
Conversations between African Americans and East Africans between 1952 and 1979.
In the cultural space specifically because this
was an extremely
revolutionary moment
in both those spaces.
It was
the change to decolonization,
but also
it was resistance of the moniker Negro and an
embrace of the term black as a specific like political
angry unapologetic
thing.
And and in that time,
so I'm continuing to think about people who inspire me,
there was the Black Arts movement.
And there's people who,
I mean,
at the end of the day,
everybody,
you know,
I almost hesitate to name because when you name people,
everyone,
everyone is later on messy,
everyone's later on problematic,
and sometimes,
sometimes they're great with race,
other times they're terrible with sexism,
but
there were people whose voices were really
important there and gave permission to,
to not just take the water hose
but to
A
fight back and to show the
to show,
I guess the spectrum of feelings for protest and resistance.
So yeah,
I think that and I think sometimes those voices at a time like Black History Month,
it could be really empowering depending on the age
for
older.
Kids or black
kids who aren't being taught their own black history
the rest of the year
to sometimes see expressions of that
and then
get
it's sort of like a buffet
of people who could inspire you
and inspire you also in different moments and to what end.
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