It is really a great conference, something that really needed to be done in the country. I just said to a couple of people that the best memory is to write it down. And so, this important history, the people on this panel have been writing it down so that it will be preserved, not just for us, but for the next generation and the next generation. One german historian said that history always must be revised. It must always be rewritten, because even we in this generation cannot write the final part of the story. Because new resources are coming up, new interpretations, and consequently we must keep working at the same topics and subtopics until we get it, and until we get it right. Frederick douglas visited tennessee three times before he died in 1895. He came in 1873, 1882, and in 1892, 3 years before he died. He did not come to memphis in 1892 because of the riots. And massacres that took place. He had visited chattanooga, knoxville, nashville, as he did on his 1882 tour. One of them
History always must be revised. It must always be rewritten, because even we in this generation cannot write the final part of the story. Because new resources are coming up, new interpretations, and consequently we must keep working at the same topics and subtopics until we get it, and till we get it right. Frederick douglas visited tennessee three times before he died in 1895. He came in 1873, 1882, and in 1892, 3 years before he died. He did not come to memphis in 1892 because of the riots. And massacres that took place. He visited chattanooga, knoxville, nashville, as he did on his 1882 tour. One of them asked douglas, what must we do after slavery . And better douglas said, Frederick Douglass said, we must learn or die. That is still true today. We have to learn our history, keep writing and rewriting it until we get it right. And we have to learn what has happened in the past in order to be able to govern ourselves in the present, and to plan for the future. So these three schola
Polling station. Election. Stock image. Photo: Unsplash Waltham Forest residents in Grove Green and Lea Bridge go to the polls today to elect their new local councillors. Cllr Yemi Osho, a nurse and another former Mayor, stepped down as councillor for Lea Bridge on April 22, having been first elected in 2014. There are five candidates to choose from in each election. Below are their promises to the people of their ward. Grove Green Uzma, Labour candidate for Grove Green Uzma Rasool, a Grove Green resident for 23 years, is a teacher and researcher who describes herself as “passionate about improving the lives of young people”.