e expansive continent and the history that points to the beginning of all human existence. Still, it feels like something to hold on to and I know why we do it. Wh…or the people living there before enslavement was confined to north Africa and the nation of Egypt. Black people have historically clung to representations of Egyptian royalty as a way to challenge the narrative of enslavement, not recognizing that most of us in the diaspora whose ancestors were enslaved were not north African or Egyptian or that the glorification of the material excess of the ruling class of ancient Egypt does little honor or recognize the lived human experiences of the beautifully diverse people and cultures on the rest of the expansive continent and the history that points to the beginning of all human existence. Still, it feels like something to hold on to and I know why we do it. When we study Darwin, it’s bri…
Bridgette L. Hylton
