By Adolf Alzuphar
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“Restaurer le passé ou construire un avenir ? Planter ou enterrer ? Le cimetière ou l’accouchement ? Né d’un déracinement et d’un déni, le pays aime ses racines. Il en a fait un culte et une maladie. Les ancêtres sont vénérés comme des parents, comme des guides, comme des martyrs, des fondateurs de villages, comme des sources d’inspirations et comme moyen de garder le sol sous la semelle. Cela est bien. Un être sans ancêtre est une feuille morte qui tient la main à une valise, un homme sans mur derrière le dos, un buisson avec un drapeau.” – Kamel Daoud
We the News is a newsstand that distributes and sells black immigrant-focused publications and products. It features zines that archive stories and conversations shared by immigrants and first-generation Americans during a series of story circles lead by artist Lizania Cruz in partnership with the Black Alliance of Just Immigration. We the News first iteration is possible thanks to the support of the Laundromat Project. wethenews.net
“Restore the past or build a future? Plant or bury? Cemetery or childbirth? Born of both uprooting and denial, the country loves its roots. It makes this love a cult and an illness. The ancestors are venerated as parents, as guides, as martyrs, as founders of villages, as sources of inspiration and as a means of keeping the soil under the soles. That is fine. A being without an ancestor is a dead leaf that holds a suitcase, a man without a wall behind his back, a bush with a flag.” – Kamel Daoud