African American creative practices open up new ways to understand and find our places in the world. Poet and emcee akua naru and I spoke about the power of language to do precisely that.
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The power of the Black cultural tradition is the understanding that freedom dreams are collective and do not cease to exist when a leader passes away. What we inherit from Jackson is a practice of resilience defined by the strength to build bridges with others and, together, to cross them.
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For Jesse Jackson, Rose pointed out, the pathway to a lasting coalition is not simply about “political alignment, it is also about the sense of a moral vision and a sense of what we want collectively in the future and what we want to build.”
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When one door closes, Black communities have a long tradition of opening new ones for themselves: Literacy classes held in buses. Freedom schools where teaching happened under trees. Church basements. Kitchen tables. Study groups — in person and online — that become movements.
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Part of staying resilient under the pressures of systemic racism is to reclaim time, space and the right to move our bodies freely and at ease, together. This is the kind of thing we mean when we say, Spirit Stays Free!
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“A politics based on a moral vision changes us; it builds bridges of mutual recognition and gives us the courage to cross them again and again.”
Last week, Professor Tricia Rose reflected on Reverend Jesse Jackson’s legacy with the BBC World Service.
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