Calling All Creatives: The Sankofa Decks are Just the Beginning Our #INCOMMUNITY Workshop was successful in its ability to share the Sankofa Initiative and its tools. Expanding the initiative with a once a month in-person workshop that bring people together to provide these tools with our gifts. There has been great feedback, but now it is time to not just talk, but persuade and influence to build the capacity to get this work done. The Sankofa Deck is a gift from the relationships I’ve nurtured most of my life. With every conversation, every shared moment, every lesson passed down from elder to youth and back again — that’s the soil these cards are rooted in. Funny how a memory can carry a melody. This week with the first official Sankofa workshop, I found myself humming that simple childhood refrain of a song I heard when I was five. “Jesus loves the little children, all the children of the world…” It reminded me that love , real love ...
