For too long, America’s story has been told from a single perspective; ‘His-story." However, it is time to reclaim our story —the story of the many peoples of color who have shaped the world long before colonization, long before slavery, and who continue to shape it today.
This book is called Uncovering Our Truths because that is exactly what we need to do: uncover what has been buried, erased, or ignored.
History as taught in most schools starts our story with bondage, as if people of color were born into chains. But our legacy is much greater than that. It’s time to acknowledge that Black, Indigenous, Latino, and Asian histories didn’t begin with conquest or oppression; they started with brilliance.
It’s time for our children to learn the truth, not just during Black History Month, but every month, in every classroom and every home. The truth is not dangerous; erasing it is.
We must stop allowing history to be written without us, or worse, written against us. This is about more than correcting a textbook. It’s about reclaiming identity, restoring dignity, and reshaping the future.