Akané Okoshi
Akané Okoshi writes about race, critical spectatorship, and material history and is currently working on a Black history curriculum for the Brooklyn Public Library’s Center for Brooklyn History. Previously, Akané worked as a museum educator and researcher.
Tayo Giwa’s The Sun Rises in the East
By Akané OkoshiUhuru Sasa Shule, which translates to “Freedom Now School” in Kiswahili, was the heartbeat of The East, a Brooklyn-based organization founded in 1969 by Black people committed to self-determination, social justice, and diasporic world-building.
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