Babylon Be Still: How a Journalist-Educator Adopted An African Centered Worldview
Sat, Apr 16
|https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fns4FWj8tLY
Join Sankofa for the book release celebration of Babylon Be Still: How a Journalist-Educator Adopted An African Centered Worldview featuring the author, Sam P.K. Collins and Lawyer/Activist, Nkechi Taifa.


Time & Location
Apr 16, 2022, 1:00 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fns4FWj8tLY
Guests
About The Event
In "Babylon Be Still," Collins compiles previously written works and chronicles his social and political self-development. The journey starts at Collins' graduation from a predominantly white university and throughout his time in the journalism industry and teaching profession. Along the way, readers get a sense of the experiences that shaped Collins' worldview and inspired him to espouse Pan-African Nationalism in all of its manifestations. They also gain an understanding of why African people -- ethnicity and socioeconomic standing notwithstanding -- must organize and practice self-determination in these times.
About the Author
Between 2015 and 2020, D.C.-based journalist and educator Sam P.K. Collins (known to many as Ras Plo Kwia Glebluwuo) hosted "The AllEyesOnDC Show" at We Act Radio in Anacostia, and later at Sankofa Video Books & Cafe near Howard University. This community program, often recorded or livestreamed before a live audience, represented Collins' growing Pan-African consciousness and desire to use journalism as a means of organizing people of African descent around issues of great importance.
About Nkechi Taifa, Esp.
Nkechi Taifa is Founder, Principal and CEO of The Taifa Group LLC, a social enterprise firm whose mission is to advance justice. The Taifa Group’s portfolio of client services include coalition-building, convenings, government relations, meeting and retreat facilitation, strategic planning, and trainings. She also convenes the Justice Roundtable, a broad network of advocacy groups advancing progressive justice system reform, and serves as a Senior Fellow at the Center for Justice at Columbia University.  Nkechi was recently appointed to the governing board of the Corrections Information Council, an independent monitoring body that provides oversight over the conditions of District residents imprisoned throughout the Federal Bureau of Prisons and the D.C. Department of Corrections.Â