On the third Friday of each month, D.C.’s movers and shakers will grace the stage at Sankofa Video Books & Cafe (2714 Georgia Avenue NW) during which they discuss their craft/industry with AllEyesOnDC founder and host Sam P.K. Collins and weigh in on the issues of the day. This event also includes musical performances from D.C.-based artists, poets, and griots that have something important to say.
For those looking to AllEyesOnDC for enlightenment, understand that I too grow tired and weary from the mayhem people of African descent see in all corners of the world. That’s why I work as hard as I do to build a news brand that makes some sense of that.
Anyone who says differently sure as hell hasn’t had the sense of hopelessness that I felt on the corner of 9th Street and Pennsylvania Avenue, contextualized by lessons life thrown my way about what it truly means to be a black man in America.
Despite concerns about safety and the increased presence of Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) officers on the premises, the Tenleytown-based school has maintained some normalcy. Some students have taken the changes lightly, saying they hope to move on with their lives.
The daylong event came on the heel of successful uprisings at universities across the country, each one fueled by frustrations about what black students have described as an institutional lack of regard for the daily hardships they endure and white supremacy’s chokehold on higher education.
The question remains of whether we’ll follow in the footsteps of our Alabaman ancestors can carry out this boycott in D.C. and across the country in full force.
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