Sacred Work of Black Writers
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The Work Is Connected: The Ecosystem We Are Building
This past Saturday, we kicked off the first of two writing fellowships that we recently launched: Tracing Our Spiritual and Cultural Legacies. Seven of us gathered at the Cultural Wellness Center, seated around the table, and began sharing our inspiration and motivation for being part of this work over the next year. Our backgrounds and…
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The Stories We Must Tell Now
It was fifteen years ago—my daughter was about to turn one in just a few days—when I realized that my grandmother had dementia. I went home to Milwaukee to visit my family over the long holiday weekend, and my mother warned me, “Your grandmother is starting to repeat herself, I believe she is showing beginning…
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