This oral history project began in Professor Joel Gardner's Oral History Class. It includes interviews with a jailed civil rights pioneer and the sister of James Chaney (one of the slain Mississippi activist killed and buried by the KKK in the infamous 1964 voter rights photograph) VOTE - and just as important........ as one of the interviewees states: "Bring Somebody with you!"
*Daughter of Harold and Constance Boelter *Mother of Coniqua, Nile and Sarai *Grandmother of Sultan Ali and Amir Jibril *Standing on the Shoulders of West African Griots and my African-American Antecedents *Lifelong Student, matriculating a Masters in Cultural Sustainability at Goucher College *Lover of Folklife, Folklore, & just plain Folk *Gifted by the Blessings of the Creator.
Join the Conversation - Please answer these Questions
1. List your cultural sustainability idea. Comment on the365 Ways to Sustain Culture page. See link above.
2. Who are our contemporary voices of courage? Comment at the end of : Blog Entry March 19 - The Word on Voices of Courage.
3. Are there elements of culture that we need to reclaim? And, in reclaiming them, do they have a place in modernity for sustainability?Comment at end of : Blog Entry Sept. 3 - Reclaiming.Transforming!Sustaining...
4. What do young African-American women need to reclaim? And, how do we make our work as storytellers,folklorists, teachers, and mentors relevant to their aesthetics and world view? Comment at end of : Blog Entry Sept. 3 - Reclaiming.Transforming!Sustaining...
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