Ringshout!: A NATIONAL RITE OF PASSAGE: For the New and Promised Generation

Majozo, Estella Conwill

ISBN 10: 1592322662 / ISBN 13: 9781592322664

Published by African Tree Press, 2016

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Ringshout!: A NATIONAL RITE OF PASSAGE: For the New and Promised Generation
• Publisher: African Tree Press
• Publication Date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1592322662
• ISBN 13: 9781592322664
• Binding: paperback
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

Th is book should be in the hands of every member of this new and promised generation! It is just that powerful! Parents can share it with their children! Teachers with their students! Mentors with their mentees! And friends with each other! It presents the history of America through the African American perspective and prepares young people everywhere to begin to take their rightful place as conscious, committed leaders in the new world.

About the Author

Dr. Estella Conwill Majozo is a professor, poet, performance artist, and activist. Her books include the award-winning Come Out the Wilderness (The Feminist Press); Middle Passage: 105 Days (Africa World Press); Blessings for a New World (Third World Press); Libation: A Literary Pilgrimage through the African American Soul (Harlem River Press); and Jiva Telling Rites (Third World Press). She is a member of the collaborative team that includes sculptor Houston Conwill (her brother) and architect Joseph DePace. Their monuments include Revelations: The Martin Luther King Memorial in San Francisco, cited by Ebony Magazine as the most unique of all the King Monuments; Rivers at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, which received the Excellence in Design Award, Art Commission of New York; and The New Ringshout: A Tribute to African Burial Ground in New York City. The GSA African Burial Ground Project, of which The New Ringshout is a part, was recognized by the White House with Preserve America Presidential Award! Ringshout! is a tale of a great and powerful people who were called by Almighty God to survive the horrors of slavery and resist some of the most brutal oppression inflicted upon mankind in the past five hundred years. It is an ongoing, interactive tale that features you as the main character and, as you step into your sacred purpose, an indomitable hero. Across race, ethnicity, class, and gender, you are invited to make this rite of passage and become a more enlightened, compassionate, mature, and spiritually empowered human being.