10 Questions to Ask Your Elders
If you can record them answering the questions, EVEN BETTER! You’ll appreciate it so much more when they’re no longer with us. Imagine having a recording of your great-grandmother talking.
So Hoodoo Ain’t Voodoo?
Short answer: Nah! Long story: *clears throat* Voodoo is a religion. It’s a way of life. It’s basically the belief that the universe and everything in it is one. Nature
My Favorite Savannah Things to Do
I’ll be adding to this list as time goes. That’s the only way I can have peace of mind about it, because I’m sure I’ll think of more as soon
Savannah Greys
Savannah Greys are bricks made in Savannah by hand in the early 1800s by enslaved black folk at the Hermitage Plantation on the Savannah River. (It’s now International Paper.) Henry
Another reason black folks’ accents be so thick
A lot of us just got here. While researching my family’s history back in 2016, I learned that my great-grandmother on my mama’s side was born in Alabama. I read
When the Gullah Beat the U.S. in Back-to-Back Wars
The Gullah won three wars against the United States in the 1800s. What had happened was… The U.S. declared itself independent in 1776. That’s when the states went from being
Virginia Jackson Khia
Virginia Jackson was born on June 3, 1911 to two powerful civil rights leaders: Keiffer Albert Jackson (originally from Mississippi) and Dr. Lillian Carroll Jackson (from Baltimore). Her mother was
Tulsa’s Black Wall Street + Riots: Wtf happened in 1921
On May 30, 1921, a black teenager named Dick Rowland got on an elevator in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Before he got off, the elevator operator, Sarah Page, a white woman, screamed.