Trump is attacking our national collective memory. The New York Times just reported that the president signaled the defunding of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture saying the museum focuses too much on “how bad slavery was.”
I wrote Fortune: How Race Broke My Family and the World—And How To Repair It All to help us reclaim and preserve our national collective memory in a form that no one can take away—our family stories. Black, White, Native, Latino/a, Asian, Arab, Persian—all of our family histories together make American History!
They may take away an exhibit, but they cannot take our family stories.
They cannot stop us from telling our stories.
They cannot stop us from leveraging our family stories to teach the truth of what happened to us, how we resisted, how we stumbled, and how we overcame!
Join Lisa Sharon Harper for this LIVE 10-week Book Study on Fortune: How Race Broke My Family and the World—And How To Repair It All. Every Monday, September 1 through November 3, 7-8pm ET.
Each week we will read one book chapter and build capacity to research our families!
Learn diverse American History through the framework of family history.
Learn how to research your own family history.
And learn how you can resist and participate in the active repair of all this administration is attempting to erase.
YOU are the evidence of our national history! Come together with people across the country to read Fortune. Learn how I researched my family and start your own restorative journey!
