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Movement Stories
Adaptation Stories
Transformation Stories
Stories that speak to our cultural and familial roots in Africa, whether from generation to generation or across continents, countries, islands and villages - these are the stories that distinguish the African experience.
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Listing stories: by theme of Origins
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Images Speak Words - Mary Payton: My Grandma by Taayla May 2007 As a child, Grandma liked to play many games, such as Double Dutch jump rope and water tag... Read more |
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Images Speak Words - My Grandma Mary by LaShanae May 2007 When she was young, her dream was to become a teacher. When she grew up, she became a teacher and made her dream come true... Read more |
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Images Speak Words - My Grandma by Delilah May 2007 My grandma says she never went to a family reunion when she was a kid because back in Samoa there were no family reunions... Read more |
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Images Speak Words - My Great Grandmother Robbie Gordon by Saalih May 2007 The one person that made a difference in her life is her grandmother Winnie Hunter. She taught her how to study her background and how to grow up... Read more |
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Images Speak Words - Sandra Moore by Leontyne May 2007 She was class president at Mission High School in San Francisco. Sandra's favorite relative growing up was her aunt. She was able to tell her things that she did not feel comfortable telling her mother... Read more |
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Hot & Cold Blues by Ricardo Guthrie May 2006 Poetry and Collage demonstrate how collective memory can be assembled to reflect social, political, and cultural dimensions of growing up "Black" in Jim Crow "Amerika.".. Read more |
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Yovo Pieds (White Feet) by Shayla Lawson January 2006 I walk the sorghum streets, feet in ash, bow my hands in prayer. I look for you in the beads at the vegetable market, in the white seeds that sprouted in my garden when your necklace broke... Read more |
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Up From Dusty Graves by Carol Williams Curtis January 2006 Up from dusty graves our slaughtered ancestors speak. ..... Read more |
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Mo's Song by Angela M. Hardison January 2006 Who I B? I B mint & wild onions growing in the backyard Fried green tomatoes and fresh watermelon on the 4th of July Strawberry pickin’ and skinned knees from rollerskating, cold lemonade with imaginary lemons, feeding honeysuckle to a "Baby Alive" doll.. Read more |
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Obruni by Kimberly Foote January 2006 Even under the murky blue lighting of the Blue Cheese drinking spot, I stand out. Every woman besides me has a perm. ..... Read more |
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Jack T. Franklin by Joyce Owens January 2006 In 2005 at 83 years of age Jack T. Franklin had had the life he wanted and the life he could never have imagined ..... Read more |
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Culture Shock by Njeri Gakunju January 2006 Nothing could have prepared me for what lay ahead, not even my mothers soothing words, saying “remember my child, education will open doors ..... Read more |
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Poem for my Father by Quincy Troupe January 2006 father, it was an honor to be there, in the dugout with you..... Read more |
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