HeyJaredValencia Abbott (Sankofa Consulting, LLC)
High School Social Studies Teacher, Local Historian, Photographer, Telling Black Stories is my passion and side hustle. Black Folks Education Ambassador (accept the moniker).
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Black Friday History: Finding Black History in a Children’s Picture Book (opens the original)
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I wasn’t sure how long I had been serving on the National Council for the Social Studies (NCSS) Carter G. Woodson/Septima Clark Book Award Select Committee, so I went back through my email. As any good historian knows, we keep the record. Six years. I have served on this committee for six years.There was only one time during those six years when I seriously considered step
Black Friday History Post: Life and Love: Who Gets to Tell Our History? (opens the original)
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Black Friday History Post # BlackHistoryMonth365What caught my attention about the newly released movie By Any Means was not its connection to Black history, which is usually the seed of my engagement with films. It was the controversy surrounding the movie and the concerns raised by Vernon Dahmer’s family about a story inspired by true events in 1966 Mississippi. The story follows Agent Strider as he is taske
Black Friday History Post: When Labor Became Laboring: Griggs v. Duke Power and the Meaning of Labor Day (opens the original)
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The memory popped up in my feed, showing me that last Labor Day weekend I wrote the Black Friday History Post about my project, The Civil Rights Movement Beyond 1968- Griggs vs. Duke PowerThe eight-year local history project has seeped into my personal, professional, and academic life, taking hold of a study of history that was not my first or most passionate field of study, so I had t
Black Friday History Post-Morningside: Where History Came Home (opens the original)
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In 1979, I was fifteen years old, and we lived in Ruffin, North Carolina, only minutes from the Danville, Virginia, state line. I grew up on land my Abbot family owned. From the steps of our trailer, all I would see or hear were kinfolk except for the white neighbors across the road. That was home.Greensboro, North Carolina, was only a little more than thirty minutes away, but trips there felt like big adventures and were rarely made.Thanks for reading Valencia Abbott (Sankofa Consulting, LLC)
Black Friday History Post: When the History Won't Let You Look Away (opens the original)
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I have finished the historical novel With Love From Harlem by ReShonda Tate. It is the story of Hazel Scott. I knew a little about who she was and thought I had watched the PBS American Masters documentary The Disappearance of Miss Scott, but halfway through the novel I realized I hadn’t, so I placed a bookmark and watched the documentary. It took me a minute to finish the book with the research pauses, and I enjoyed the book<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.
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