Ancestral Voices
A Movement for Healing and Rebuilding.
“About Ancestral Voices: A movement for healing and rebuilding.”
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We are not here to fight history — we are here to heal from it. For generations, confrontation, resistance, and ongoing antagonism framed the struggle for Black liberation. That struggle was necessary. It was righteous. We had every right to be outraged. But struggle alone is not healing. We survived enslavement.We survived colonialism.We survived displacement.We…
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They speak to me in the night —voices older than mountains, carrying the weight of centuries.They call me to remember.To rise.To rebuild. I am not a Klingon battle cruiser tearing across space,chasing honour through blood and battle. I am a wounded spirit learning thathealing, too, is a form of courage. I am not a Romulan…
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“People do not judge the measure of a man by his accolades, but by the quiet dignity of how he carries himself and the honour with which he serves others.” — Douglas Newton I first met President The Most Honourable Jeffrey Bostic in the early 1980s, while he served as aide-de-camp to then Governor General…
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“A New Dawn” – Photograph by Douglas Newton, St. Andrew, Barbados (1994).Light rising over the hills — a quiet awakening, a reminder that healing begins within. When I’m asked what Ancestral Voices is, I begin by saying it is not merely a blog or a project — it is a movement of remembrance and restoration.…