This week we will be speaking to the founder of the Day of Mourning. Begun June 19, 2007, with a terminus of 2013, this day, 12 AM to 11:59 PM worldwide, African people are invited to participate in the collective mourning of our African ancestors who survived and perished the European slave trade. The premise is that mourning is a way to tune the instrument, to relieve our collective soul of the burden of said memory so we can move on as a community. Given the magnitude of the event, one community or a handful of priest, no matter how well-intentioned cannot address this alone--it needs to be communal. African people are asked to take a moment and mourn our ancestors as individuals or as family or as community. There is no wrong way to participate. Everyone is asked to just do something whether that is a verbal or silent prayer, a walk along a body of water, a meditation, lighting a candle, reading inspirational words of one of our ancestors archived in a slave narrative, hosting a discussion.
Please share your experiences here. We'd like to know what you did and how you felt afterwards. If there are images or video footage you can provide links.
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