Black Memory & Public History, African Ways of Knowing, Civic Culture & Community Governance Eric Brown Black Memory & Public History, African Ways of Knowing, Civic Culture & Community Governance Eric Brown

The Memory That Fed Us

Black community is not just a good feeling.

It is an institution.

Black memory is not nostalgia.

It is infrastructure.

African Ways of Knowing are not decorations on American life. They are part of the circulation system that has kept this country breathing, even while the country kept trying to deny the source of the oxygen.

So the task is not only to remember. The task is to keep building Black space, protecting Black place, and moving at Black pace.

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