What are we going to do now?

“Basically, reconstruction is the next necessary phase in this process of learning how to educate ourselves. It is not sufficient to just point out what’s wrong in the miseducational system- it is necessary to do the research that begins to set the record straight.” Dr. Na’im Akbar from Know Thyself, page 59

- Junious Ricardo Stantor

During Black History Month 2023, I have been sharing books, authors, and Websites by Africans, people of African heritage and ancestry who have researched the facts, who are setting the record right, and are offering insights and suggestions on what we have to do to heal ourselves, tell our story to reconnect to our ancient African and modern Diasporan roots.

History is not just names, dates, and places in the past; it is certainly not viewing events in a vacuum as isolated occurrences or through a myopic lens. History helps us learn lessons about life and living and discern patterns. History offers road maps, guideposts, and wisdom along our journey on this physical plane we call life in this space we call earth.

A people who shun or eschew learning about their own history are a lost people--a people devoid of meaning and purpose. A people whose history has been stripped from them, distorted, maligned, and/or obfuscated are a people experiencing psychic trauma and pain, who are unconsciously disoriented and more easily malleable and manipulated by outside coercion and influence.