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On behalf of the ASALH South Florida Branch, I am submitting my WHY.

Our Historian, Dinizulu Gene Tinnie, clarified our mission from the beginning.

Our branch has had several opportunities to create a calendar of activities that told stories of captive Africans. We created and nurtured a culture of active learning and teaching as a way of life in our communities that Dr. Woodson and other Ancestral luminaries would be proud of. In the spirit of “commemorating with a purpose,” our activities are linked to the efforts of Spady Cultural Heritage Museum, Broward College, the Black Archives and Lyric Theater, and other organizations with the same mission to use the creative arts and culture community to lead in making the remembrance of those ancestors relevant and real. We have and will continue to involve artists, architects, writers, poets, storytellers, musicians, dancers, composers, creative thinkers, and doers of all kinds to keep our community vibrant and filled with the memory of our past and the fulfillment of our goals in the future.

Dr. Joan Cartwright