PS: Wow.
"And I remember this older woman, she took my hand and she said, 'This is what they do to us.'"
JS: I will never forget the look on his mother's and father's faces. It's the kind of expression that takes you years to understand. And I remember this older woman, she took my hand and she said, "This is what they do to us."
For me, I grew up in Richmond Afro-Latino, and I grew up mainly in white neighborhoods. And, I think it was when I went to an HBCU that I really understood a lot of the history and the complexity. And really, that moment in Ferguson was game-changing for me: when I understood, finally, a layer of the Black experience that I previously had not been privy to.
The virtual exhibition "Love Letters to America: Part II" is now open to the public.
