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2006-08-14
I Love The Nightlife
KELOLAND TV, SD - Jul 12, 2006 night. Sankofa, a 24-hour coffee shop on 41st street in Sioux Falls , has never closed since opening January 1st of this year. "We
“It really is changing, work schedules are changing,” he said. “It's fitting into how to best do business, and that will dictate the time frames we work in. I think it's going to be more 7 days, 24 hours a day."

2006-08-12
Ensemble Theatre looks to past to secure future
Houston Chronicle, United States - Aug 10, 2006 The spirit of Sankofa says we must go back and reclaim our past in order to move forward, so we understand why and how we came to be who we are.".
"I'm excited to be returning home," Morris said. "As one of the Southwest's largest African-American companies, celebrating its 30th anniversary, the Ensemble has much to be proud of. The board, staff and artists make a wonderful team. I want to assist them in bringing to fruition the things we recognize as important to the company's future, to lead it into the next 30. The spirit of Sankofa says we must go back and reclaim our past in order to move forward, so we understand why and how we came to be who we are."

2006-08-10
Tattoo artist, 42, Los Angeles
The Observer, UK - Jul 15, 2006 her. So I told her of this African symbol, a Sankofa, that means you can't move into the future until you understand your past.
A Kenyan exchange student lived next door to us. On his ninth birthday he had to go and kill an animal with his best friend and bring the family food to prove he was a man. His father roped off the yard and there was a goat, and he gave him a machete and me a rope. After wrestling with it for an hour we finally hog-tied it and cut its head off with the machete. His father explained to us what being a man was, how your position as the man in the family is to provide. That was my rite of passage. After that, not wanting to be black went away. After that, I wanted to be as black as I could get.

2006-08-09
Festival on a 'deeper level'
The Nation Newspaper, Barbados - Jul 10, 2006 It showcased Sankofa Productions, Lion Sound, artists like Bobo and Smokey Burke, the Olankunde Steel Orchestra, Pinelands Creative Workshop and the Israel
There was also an exhibition of African history which included the slave trade, the great African empires, as well as some information on the key people in Barbados' emancipation along with a printed narrative covering 1860 to 1966 putting the island's heroes into context.

2006-08-08
Theatrical reading relives events of Hurricane Katrina
Penn State Digital Collegian, PA - Jul 13, 2006 of hurricane-swept New Orleans has become obscure, Penn State will receive a reminder of the destruction this Saturday in the form of the play Katrina: Sankofa
Dumas said one story depicted in the play is the story of the Bullard family. When one member of the family was lost in a flood, his grandson died trying to save him. Only an elderly member of the family, who was evacuated to the Superdome, survived to pass on the story of the family's agony during the hurricane, he said. Appropriately titled, the word "Sankofa" means "you return to your past in order to return to your future," Dumas said.

2006-08-07
Festival on a 'deeper level'
The Nation Newspaper, Barbados - Jul 10, 2006 It showcased Sankofa Productions, Lion Sound, artists like Bobo and Smokey Burke, the Olankunde Steel Orchestra, Pinelands Creative Workshop and the Israel
There was also an exhibition of African history which included the slave trade, the great African empires, as well as some information on the key people in Barbados' emancipation along with a printed narrative covering 1860 to 1966 putting the island's heroes into context.

2006-08-06
Cultural roots need nurture
Barbados Advocate, Barbados - Jul 8, 2006 Dance groups Sankofa Productions, Dance Strides and the Pinelands Creative Workshop, then treated the audience to African influenced dances and Junior Calypso
He said that to be truly free the nation must look to its past to decide the people we want to be and the the destiny we want to shape, adding that he hoped the season could be televised for Caribbean people within the Diaspora. We long for a time to come when Caribbean people in Brooklyn, Brixton and Botswana can be brought into this event beamed into homes around the region and beyond.

1. Legal Lynching. is 135th person to die in Texas''s execution chamber in last five years - Shaka Sankofa formerly Gary Graham - Brief Article
`THE MATTER OF WHO ENDS UP ON DEATH ROW IS MORE OFTEN DETERMINED BY RACE-RELATED FACTORS THAN BY THE SEVERITY OF THE CRIME.'' Perhaps it was all the ...

2. Sankofa: Black Theologies
Diversity in black liberative theologies has grown over the years. The Civil Rights Movement was lauded by my parents: Negroes were making progress.

3. Sankofa: distributive justice - Haile Gerima''s film gets new opportunities for international distribution from Mypheduh Films, Washington, D.C
The ghost of a legendary black filmmaker has returned to aid the distribution of Haile Gerima''s prize-winning but "unmarketable" film Sankofa. The film ...

4. HEAVY BURDEN
MANDENI, A RURAL VILLAGE IN SOUTH AFRICA, HAS BEEN RAVAGED BY AIDS. WOMEN AND CHILDREN BEAR MUCH OF THE LOAD MANDENI, SOUTH AFRICA - Khumbuzile Cele is ...

5. African American Lutherans proclaim unity
Under the theme "Sankofa: A Celebration of Umoja" about 100 Lutherans met July 14-16 in Atlanta for the African American Lutheran Association''s 10th biennial ...