Tag Archives: History

Sankofa Impact Retreat 2023

Recently, the Sankofa Impact team convened for our 2023 board and staff retreat! Programming stretched...

Fannie Lou Hamer’s Birthday

Last night at our open house we unveiled the newest addition to our office space,...

Myron Curry

Myron Curry is a self-taught artist from Seattle’s historically Black Central District. His work ranges...

Cesar Chavez

Cesar Chavez was born in 1927 to parents who were farmers. Growing up during the...

Latinx Heritage Month: The Chicano Movement

Movements for civil rights in the 1960s around the United States inspired people from different...

Sankofa, Perspective, and High Stakes

Lately, it has all been…a lot. After Donald J. Pumpkins, a racial reckoning, and the...

International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade

The Transatlantic Slave Trade was the largest long distance forced movement of people in human...

Place-Based Learning

At Sankofa Impact a core value and component of our organization is providing our community...

Freedom Summer

On the side of an old country road in Neshoba County, Mississippi stands a lonely...

bell hooks

Born in 1952 into a family of nine, Gloria Jean Watkins grew up in the...