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Category: History

Action, Equity, History

The road to repair

March 23, 2020April 10, 2020 Ami W

Note: this piece was started before the pandemic was declared. For more depth on this moment, click here for details on the upcoming Coping with Corona Collective webinars. Very near my house, newly built “luxury” apartments will be opening soon, … Continue reading The road to repair

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Rectify resources

June 19, 2019June 19, 2019 Ami W

If you are reading this, you have resources. Your resources may include a home, a car, a computer, money to pay for non-essential items or experiences, influence at your job or place of worship, etc, etc. In addition, you may … Continue reading Rectify resources

Arts, Equity, History, Music4 Comments

Reckoning with cultural extraction

March 11, 2019August 21, 2019 Ami W

Our economy was built on the genocide of Indigenous people and the violent extraction of labor from enslaved Africans. This cruelty was justified by white people’s created illusion that those we killed, stole from, and enslaved were inferior and that … Continue reading Reckoning with cultural extraction

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Repairing narratives: old-time and bluegrass music

January 16, 2019December 18, 2019 Ami W

Today I add my voice to the chorus of people singing the true story of old-time and bluegrass music. It is a marvelously multicultural story, wrought with pain and possibility. We call for the repair of false and incomplete narratives … Continue reading Repairing narratives: old-time and bluegrass music

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Breathe, Believe

October 1, 2018 Ami W

Love. Let’s lead with love. I love you, in all of your tenderness and complexity and vulnerability, strength and pain. Feel that love. Words are inadequate. Yet words are what I have. Transformation feels slow. We move through cycles, change … Continue reading Breathe, Believe

Action, Arts, Equity, History

“The foundation of activism…is love.”

September 10, 2018 Ami W

“What does it take to rebuild community as a beautifully defiant act of resistance and a necessary tool in our collective survival?” Marisol Jiménez offered a beautiful, powerful, poetic testimony in response to that question at a recent CreativeMornings event. I … Continue reading “The foundation of activism…is love.”

Action, History

WNC Wikipedia Record-and-Edit-a-Thon

August 28, 2018August 29, 2018 Ami W

As a person who cares about the collective narrative, the first WNC Wikipedia Record-and-Edit-a-Thon, which will be held this Saturday, is an event that I think is super important. It’s being presented by the Baird Family Reunion, the oldest black … Continue reading WNC Wikipedia Record-and-Edit-a-Thon

Action, Equity, History

Legacy of Land Theft

August 20, 2018 Ami W

One does not have to be a scholar of history to know that colonizers used violence against Native Americans to take over land in this country. That white wealth was built on that stolen land using the labor of enslaved … Continue reading Legacy of Land Theft

Action, History
African American Historic Marker Asheville, NC

Historic Markers Project

January 3, 2018April 13, 2018 Ami W

Leaders from the historically African American neighborhoods of Shiloh, Burton Street, East End and Stumptown are partnering with the Asheville-Buncombe African American Heritage Commission (AAHC) on the installation of historic markers in their neighborhoods. The goal of the historic markers … Continue reading Historic Markers Project

Arts, Equity, History

News and Notes

November 2, 2017December 12, 2017 Ami W

“On this year’s Dia De Los Muertos, we are remembering those killed by the Prison Industrial Complex. From jails to detention centers, police and ICE collaborations to the targeting of our people, we are lifting up the death-dealing realities in … Continue reading News and Notes

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