Ancestral Nana is back—with a history lesson we can’t afford to ignore. From the Black Codes and Jim Crow to fast-tracking white South African “refugees” while rejecting Black and Brown asylum seekers, Nana connects the dots between America’s past and its present. She’s here to say what needs to be said: This isn’t new. It’s […]
White Nationalists Are Trying to Erase Black History-Our Ancestors Taught Us to Fight Back
By Edrea Davis – Thanks to civil rights leader, Melanie L. Campbell, I had the privilege of being with Dr. Dorothy Irene Height at NCNW headquarters on the night Barack Obama was elected President in 2008. As the nation celebrated, I watched tears roll down her cheeks. “I never thought I’d see the day,” she […]
