In a single weekend, I have learned nothing less important than what students and future generations can do, to change the path of false histories, false stories, and unknown truths. Youth not only have been able to lead forays into discovery, but become the very vehicle for representing truths that many have never realized.
Please take time to listen to the amazing foresight of authors Lora Chilton and Leonard Pitts, led by Woodbridge High School students alone(from production to interviews).
This is perfect timing to precede the History Book Festival in Lewes this very weekend, something no one should miss.
https://www.historybookfestival.org/
as well as following a day long walking tour of truths in Rhode Island. Marker 1 of this day is posted here: (NRWC project Page and here – https://convergenceri.com/stories/parsing-the-racial-divide-in-rhode-island,3325)
and please look to the next few days of the following discoveries. It is haunting how the above two events occurred on the same weekend, states apart, and yet reveal histories that we were never taught as students.
As you travel both of these journeys, realize, once you open your mind to what might be that have never known, you are free. I am so incredibly proud of how youth and younger generations can do such great things – and how it involves the past, often unknown, she is actually our future.
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