Nothing About Us Without Us is a CCCADI digital series, in collaboration with the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, where we explore African Diasporic historical events and figures. Our stories, told by us.
History books and mainstream media have left out a lot of our community’s important leaders, movements and facts as they have attempted to tell us our stories. NAUWU takes control of our narrative!
In each episode our host, Julissa Contreras dives into a different theme, event, or figure, to educate and empower our African Diasporic community. NAUWU seeks to serve as a tool to affirm our community’s powerful identity. We must know where we came from to know where we are going, and we are more than what we’ve been told.
Our first episode discusses whether or not slavery has truly been abolished. By taking a look at Brazil’s coffee industry, the U.S. Industrial Prison Complex, and the impact of low wages on Black communities, this episode challenges the notion that slavery no longer exists. Stay tuned for the premiere on September 29, 2022 at 7 pm (EST).