Reflections: Examine your village
How do we ensure the village continues? It begins with each one of us.
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Reflections on the Village
Voices from the local Black community explore the meaning of the African proverb ‘it takes a village’ in the 21st century.
Reflections: No instruction manual
No parent knows everything there is to teach a child. When communities pitch in, it makes a difficult task that much easier.
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Reflections: The village is not obsolete. It’s vital.
It may be less common today that communities raise our children. That’s why it’s all the more important to bring it back, says Randy Cobb.
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Reflections: Returning to the door of no return
To explore the relevance of the proverb, we have to consider the many distinct villages that make up the Black diaspora and the ways Black family and community cohere differently today than in the recent and distant past
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Reflections: Black elders extend the village of Black youth, care and freedom dreams
To explore the relevance of the proverb, we have to consider the many distinct villages that make up the Black diaspora and the ways Black family and community cohere differently today than in the recent and distant past
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