In the United States, France and Brazil, countrywide election cycles are heavily underway. As global social structures continue to be remade by conflicting economic, political and social agendas, Africana governance formations and impulses fight to harness a momentum of memory in order to contest for collective state power and resist coordinated efforts to suppress popular social and political movements.
As African and other students fight for quality education in French colonies and their mainland, and African and other students in the U.S. march for their lives and to protect and exercise collective Black power through the vote, HBCU homecoming season reinforces rituals of cultural meaning-making.
What is the nature, meaning and value of a concept of “home” as place, idea and context for social transformation?
What happens when our sense of self and home are roiled by serial assaults grounded in who we have been to others, hostile social forces?
How do or can our responses determine the course of our individual and collective lives?
Is there a coming Black home?
