The Unfinished Revolution and the African American Experience from Slavery to Today
In June 2023 the Sankofa Collaborative kicked off a four-year series of workshops on the theme of “The Unfinished Revolution and the African American Experience from Slavery to Today,” intended to further the Sankofa Collaborative’s mission to build the capacity of individuals, groups, and organizations to learn about, present, and discuss the complex and difficult issues in the history and current experiences of African American citizens of New Jersey.
Each year’s workshops will focus on an era of African Americans’ struggle for freedom and the inalienable rights promised in the Declaration of Independence at the founding of our nation. In spring and fall 2023 the Collaborative presented Part I and Part II of “Slavery, It Happened Here, Too – Stories from New Jersey.” In 2024, the topic was “Jim Crow in New Jersey – Policies, Regulations, and Practices Supporting Discrimination and Segregation in the Garden State.” The themes for coming years are “The Great Migration to New Jersey – Is This the Promised Land?” (2025) and “Civil Rights in New Jersey Then and Now – Will Black Lives Ever Matter?” (2026).
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Materials and resources from past Sankofa Collaborative workshops are available on our Past Programs page.
Here are some photos from past Sankofa Collaborative workshops:
Photos courtesy of Grounds For Sculpture
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Sankofa Collaborative workshops are made possible, in part, through generous grants from the New Jersey Council for the Humanities and the New Jersey Historical Commission.