Jordannah Elizabeth

Araceli Poma is a music teacher graced with the unique calling of teaching Latin youth composition via a six-week program, Sounds that Carry.

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Black literature, and exploratory genres within the realm of nonfiction, make this world of writing and expression dynamic and eclectic. The new works of celebrated author and journalist, Ta-Nehisi Coates and independent scholar, Alexis Pauline Gumbs, titled “The Message” and “Survival is a Promise: The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde” are wonderful examples of Black books that are different, thoughtful and can solely come from the minds of two individual authors whose minds are bright, clear, complex and introspective.

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The truth is a concept, a lens, and an experiential world view that differs greatly between Black, Indigenous, non-Black, and white citizens of America, the Western world, and the whole of our global collective web. One of the most glaring differences in history and revisionist history is the story, invaluable contributions, and positives of the African past and present. We would not be who we are — we would not look the way we do, speak the way we do, and eat the cuisines that we do — without the African diasporic foundation.

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Black women have been at the crux of American culture for nearly two centuries. Our resilience, resistance, intelligence, grace.

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