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.