Anansi’s Web
Anansi is a figure from West African orature (oral literature) that has been shared from the ancestors to elders to children and beyond. Anansi is described as a powerful creator deity, a trickster hero, an immortal spider, and a symbol of resistance. Anansi is also known as the one that brings wisdom and knowledge to the people.
Anansi’s Web connects us to our people, our history, and ourselves. It honors the memory of the great Anansi, W.E.B. Du Bois, who connected theory to practice in the Black liberation struggle in the U.S., on the African continent, and in the African diaspora.
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The Color-Blindness of Social Justice and the Need for Intersectional Racial Justice
Social justice is often used to connote a progressive move to justice in terms of the distribution of wealth, opportunities, and privileges within a society. But what does this really mean? Who does it serve? Who gets to decide when justice and equity have been reached? And what does it…
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