So beautiful and powerful. Thank you for putting this together. This is the closest I have had so far to a proper memorial for KB.

The University of the West Indies' sound archives contains an impressive collection of talks by major Caribbean cultural figures, including the work of Barbadian historian and poet, Edward Kamau Brathwaite. Scholar Jordan Burke highlights Brathwaite's lecture on the 1831 Baptist Revolt of enslaved laborers in Jamaica led by Samuel Sharpe, and how Brathwaite imagined the soundscape of these Black revolutionaries' struggles for freedom.

This piece was produced by the University of Virginia's Religion, Race & Democracy Lab as part of their documentary research program.

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