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It is our responsibility to maintain our culture, community and history. These factors are valuable to protecting our legacies while preparing to teach the future generations. Black Americans come from an ancestral lineage that was rich and royal but it was also stolen. Many tactics were put into place to diminish it. Erase it and prevent it from evolving. However through resiliency, Black Americans retained as much of our history prior to the Atlantic slave trade and recreated it utilizing our intuition and creativity. 

In the context of this blog, we will use the terms preservation, Us and you to describe the following:

Preservation

According to Webster's Dictionary, the definition of preservation is "the activity or process of keeping something valued alive, intact, or free from damage or decay".

This can be a physical object, idea, event or process.

Us

Black Americans or people of African decent.

You

The viewer, the historian, the educator, the student or simply a person interested in the importance of preservation.