Category Archives: stories

Tulsa: Rest and Reparations

Last year, Sankofa Impact conducted a small-scale trip to Tulsa, Oklahoma to visit and research...

Infusing Future Business Leaders with A Knowing

Sankofa Impact and the University of Washington Foster School of Business recently partnered for an...

How do we move forward together? Q&A with Rev. Dr. McKinstry

For the Rev. Dr. Carolyn McKinstry, the head-spinning events of 2020 felt purposeful-- as if...

Robert Graetz, Minister and courageous friend of the Pilgrimage, dies at 92

Project Pilgrimage cohorts met with Robert Graetz three separate times and he always left us...

Platform: Quess? Moore

Quess? Moore and Eleanor Chang-Stucki led us through such a timely and much needed Platform...

Disciplined Hope in Mississippi

I have thought about James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner every day since Mr....

A Letter From Our Director

(Appeared in the Summer 2020 Project Pilgrimage Newsletter.) Riding on the bus during a Pilgrimage...

Civil rights advocate and friend of the Pilgrimage, Dr. Reavis Mitchell, passes at 72.

One of Nashville’s most well-known historians, and a longtime administrator at Fisk University, has died...

Lynching: Then and Now

Project Pilgrimage invites our community to join us for an evening with our resident historian,...

WORDS by Davon White

Over the last 400 years, we have had only glimpses of what it means to...