Just imagine, we’re talking about history as literature, history as music. This is radical stuff here but it is real and authentic and, dare I say, inspirational too.
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Just imagine, we’re talking about history as literature, history as music. This is radical stuff here but it is real and authentic and, dare I say, inspirational too.
I found myself transfixed in the art museum, surrounded by elegant and stylish portraits of African Americans in the 1920s!
Battlefields, cemeteries, museums, historic homes like the Frederick Douglass, great cathedrals and churches, monuments and statues, and old towns to name can all bring history to life.
Learning from our elders is a tradition that is deeply rooted in African culture and oral traditions.
Other movies brought painful stories to life but also inspired us to overcome our own challenges and hardships.
History doesn’t always have been told only from a textbook, an encyclopedia or some other fact-filled book. It could, and I believe should, be told as a story about people. History should be literature.
I imagine that she was repeatedly told “you can’t do that!” But she did. She knew no limits to expressing herself.
"The struggle” doesn’t even need to be defined for us. In fact, I can’t define it but I definitely know it when I see it. (Unfortunately, I’m seeing a lot of “the struggle” these days.)