How To Find What’s Hidden in Translation, Lost in Transmission

How do I sit with this knowing of not-knowing,Or attempt to commune with the great-grandfather of my great, grandfatherWhen I cannot speak the words of his mother tongue? What can I hear in this restless silence, leftLong after my grandma still had breathTo fill in all those gaps in my memory? Why did I not … Continue reading How To Find What’s Hidden in Translation, Lost in Transmission →

The Concealed History of Free People of Color in America

The early history of people of color in the United Stated has focused almost exclusively on their enslavement, which has incompletely presented and positioned the identities of, ideologies about, and policies toward blacks in this country up through the modern age. In actuality, there were approximately a quarter of a million free African Americans living … Continue reading The Concealed History of Free People of Color in America →