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We have some very powerful presentations scheduled for this year’s ASCAC Midwest Region conference exploring a range of themes including health and healing, resistance to enslavement, Nile Valley history and historiography, archeology, language, and more.
I’ll be doing a presentation tomorrow entitled “Sankɔfa, Al’adun Jarumi, da Asali: A…
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this was a Blacktastic night!
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We are 2 days away from this year’s ASCAC Midwest Region conference. This Join us, Nov. 1-3 for enlightening presentations exploring the theme “Sankɔfa: Reclaiming Ancestral Memory.”
Register today! https://ascacmidwest.org/2023-conference
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“These African American closed societies perpetuated what they termed the ‘Old Time Religion,’ and they utilized an arsenal that included both knocking and kicking and root doctoring. This association linked the martial art and medical knowledge together as parallel means of attaining power. It was not uncommon for bonded fighters to rely on…
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“In North America oral histories note the use of knocking and kicking being used by maroons for self-defense. This account is not surprising since knocking and kicking was practiced by the Gullahs, who formed the numerous maroon groups that fought in the series of Gullah wars up to 1858. Similarly, knocking and kicking was deeply rooted in the…
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