Writings by Jumal

I stood at the back of an overflowing dinning hall as Dr. Franklin rose from the table of dignitaries to address the assembled. From his slender, demure frame, a powerful voice burst forth, soaring above the amplification, crashing the confines of the room and rattling throughout the corridors of the hotel. He spoke with the authority and passion of a man, who over six decades earlier, when the history of slaves was not a considered a serious subject by leading academics, veered off the road least traveled to blaze his own path, a path that led his talents to writing and speaking about the elephant in the room.
In documenting the crime of the millennium, a crime that many descendants of both perpetrator and victim alike wished could forever be erased from human memory, Dr. Franklin permanently altered narratives on American history and established a more accurate paradigm from which the discipline henceforth would be viewed and studied.

A Beautiful Experience
Writings by
Okeyo Ajamu Jumal
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Departure
The digital temperature sign flashed 14 degrees Fahrenheit as Jostlyn, my grand cousin who nicely opened her home for my visit, sped pass the nondescript shopping mall a little after 5AM on our way to the Greenbelt subway station. When we passed the last checkpoint entering the station [...]

…That gives us a starting point. Boomers are followed by generation X, followed by the Y or Z or something else. But whatever name is bestowed in pop culture lexicon, the reality remains the same, the iGeneration and the Hip-Hop Generation elected GenerationX President of the United States. The ground has shifted. The torch as been passed.
And it’s all good.

It was happening, really happening! For what seemed like an eternity of anxiety, tempered with a steadfast confidence, the election outcome on the night of November 4, 2008, thundered forth like an emotional storm, drenching me in tears of the most wonderful kind.