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Our History Is Not Lost: Resources for Learning and Teaching the Fullness of Black History

ED Surge

I learned truths about European imperialism and the humanness before slavery — how colonists from all over Europe stuck their flagpoles into African soils, controlling nations and influencing heritage for centuries. Humanizing pre-colonial history catapulted a spiritual reckoning and unlocked a familiar wholeness for me.

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Unearthing the Origins of Plantation Slavery on São Tomé

Sapiens

THE FOREST-SHROUDED ESTATE On an island 300 kilometers west of mainland Africa, in 2020, our small team began down a barely visible path flanked by shoulder-high, shimmering capim grass. São Tomé’s role in this devastating and transformational history is largely unknown—some people have never heard of the tiny nation.

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