inspiration

For Assata, spirituality was not an escape but a survival mechanism, a wellspring of strength, and a practice of remembrance. In Cuba, she deepened her understanding by studying African and Afro-Cuban religions, where ancestors and ordinary objects—rocks, leaves, shells—become sacred (Ifa-Orisa is an Earth based practice). She described this... See more

Memory isn’t only academic. It shouldn’t be reduced to a school requirement or a shallow trend. It should be embodied, oral, and alive.