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Origins Stories
Adaptation Stories
Transformation Stories
Stories that document how individuals, families and communities move continuously, sometimes seeking fresh prospects, sometimes forced by slavery, war, disaster, employment, or hope for a better life.
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Listing stories: by theme of Movement
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Images Speak Words - The Story of Gary Carter, My Grandfather by Darnell May 2007 We have a very large family. They live all over the country in places like Chicago, Detroit, Arizona, Florida, Kansas, Cincinnati, California, Milwaukee, Arkansas, Germany, and San Diego... Read more |
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Images Speak Words - My Mom by Isaiah May 2007 There were bombs falling and gun fire all the time. They would have to hide in bomb shelters. It was underground and very scary... Read more |
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Shilling Love by Shailja Patel June 2006 I grew up a brown minority citizen of black-majority post-colonial Kenya. "Shilling Love" shows how every right that citizens of the global North take for granted, including expressions of love between parents and children, are painfully-won and desperate.. Read more |
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Lost in Zulu Translation: between otherness, motherland and love. by Leslie Ann Murray June 2006 Lost in Translation is a semi-autobiographical story about my dating experiences of living in South Africa... Read more |
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On the Fence by Christ Pearson January 2006 My life as the house nigger leaves me sitting on the fence. Never been black enough to work the fields. Never been white enough to run the plantation. Just brown enough to wish the choice wasn’t black and white... Read more |
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Jim Goes to Cuba by Kenneth McManus January 2006 I'll never go back to Mississippi, Muddy-snake ending of my misery and some Adolescent, freckle-faced boy?s idea of change and manhood ..... Read more |
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Clocking the Soul of the Black Cinema Nation by Rahdi Taylor January 2006 You can be in New York, Atlanta, Oakland, or Cincinnati. The crazy thing is, you can't twist a dreadlock without hitting an independent Black filmmaker. And yet, with all these artists of color, where is the new school of Black cinema? ..... Read more |
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Malonga : The Spirit of a Master Teacher by Muisi-kongo Malonga January 2006 All three of us would sit anxiously, our seatbelts fastened, waiting for those words that so often introduced us to people ..... Read more |
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Cape Dancing by Valrie Nozipho Sanders January 2005 The lone black female dancer on a stage filled with white dancers representing an image of strength, grace and discipline in a country that has reserved those descriptions for white women. I was going to be a symbol... Read more |
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A Lesson in Bahia by Cedric Brown January 2006 Asha was ready to fight. Her eyes, the color of the golden sand on the Brazilian beach where we stood, were blazing ..... Read more |
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