Music—composition and improvisation—is both the instantiation and narration of memory, and the feeling of and commentary on the meaning of the now.
Read MoreWhere we lack imagination, where we forget or foreclose the lessons of our ancestors, where we limit our cultural identities to places we migrated to and not from, these become the sites of our destruction.
Read MoreRobots are the result of a concept of reason that has overextended itself, if not exposing its own fundamental alienation from a metaphysics of Divine order.
Read MoreFor Africans, “history” became the animating force that determined how we might do something, based on how it was done
Read MoreWhat will Africans do? Or in the words of the late John Henrik Clarke, “Who speaks for Africa in the new world order?”
Read MoreFor in this essay, Du Bois not only reframes the question of race, he establishes the idea that races are indeed the movers of history and the future relies on the abilities of these human groups to contribute to the world in ways that only they can
Read MoreHistory is not merely the recorded past. It is the living memory of human groups attempting to make sense of the present
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