
Sea Island Cotton
By Tom Bouthillet For 30,000 years, humans wore linen made from flax. Then, in the
By Tom Bouthillet For 30,000 years, humans wore linen made from flax. Then, in the
By Luana M. Graves Sellars Time honored traditions and skills are to be treasured. The
“Over 60% from the Rice Coast: What the Numbers Reveal About Who We Are” By Amadu
The Crying River is an excerpt from the book of poems, One Voice of a People, by Stephen Q. Gray
Data Courtesy of Amadu Massally, Author of The Gullah Geechee Saga: Through African Eyes The
The Food So, it’s been a few weeks since I returned from Africa, and of
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Kenya Day 6 So it’s 4am in the morning and I am on the way
While in Ghana, one of the local kings gave me a new African name during a naming ceremony.
By Luana M. Graves Sellars African Name – Nana Nyarkoa Well, it’s August 15th and
A large part of my conversation with Luana focuses on a concept called heirs property, a form of land ownership that occurs when someone dies without a will, leaving heirs without a clear title to the property. Without definitive proof of land ownership, heirs property owners can’t get home improvement loans, farm loans, and certain kinds of insurance, among a host of other things.
Plantations visually, tend to be strikingly beautiful places that also embody and represent violence, pain and suffering.
When we think about slavery, we don’t usually consider the day to day or the gory details. The general knowledge of captivity, hard labor and cruelty are the basics, but for the most part, the actual experience that enslaved people went through are forgotten. Slavery inflicted generational trauma in so many different ways; fear, uncertainty, humiliation and mental and physical stressors.