• Going Home to Where I Been

  • Apr 5 2021
  • Length: 11 mins
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Going Home to Where I Been

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  • I revisit what was but I do not long for an American past or seek the romanticisms of a segregated ethnic enclave. I go home to places where I been for the same reasons all those people left my Aunt Fannie to be guardian of so many memories—to know I am, and we were.

    For more on A Colored Girl Speaks, please visit the website, www.andreahunter.com, and connect with me on Twitter @IamAndreaHunter and subscribe to this podcast.

    We also invite you to share your stories and meditations, and to ask for those stories not yet given.

    References, Resources, and Copyright

    • Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child: Recognized as one of the most well-known Negro (African American) spirituals dating to the era of slavery in the United States. 
    • Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child (track 14)., performed by Odetta at Carnegie Hall, 1960. Courtesy of Concord Music Group.

    A Colored Girl Speaks Podcast Team:

    • Andrea Hunter, Essayist and Producer
    • Tiera Chiama Moore Narrator, Co-Producer and Vocal Artist
    • Vernonia Thornton, Announcer
    • Jamonica Brown and Deanna Floyd, Production Assistants

     
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