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Cross Currents: The Sankofa Continuum
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Cross Currents: The Sankofa Continuum
Thursday, Feb. 19 from 6-8 pm
Cypress Theater
At Georgia Tech, Kenny Glenn will offer a critical reflection on the enduring relationship between history, culture, innovation, and technology. Drawing from his lived experience as a former Black male student-athlete, Glenn will examine how individual perseverance and purpose contribute to collective legacy-making within communities. His narrative situates personal achievement not as an endpoint but as part of an intergenerational continuum of responsibility, resilience, and progress.
Grounded in the principle of Sankofa—the imperative to look back in order to move forward. This talk challenges participants to understand history not solely as a body of knowledge to be studied but as a living, ongoing process in which they are active contributors. While the celebration of “firsts” remains significant, equal emphasis is placed on those who inherit responsibility and choose to advance the work when the baton is passed. Participants are invited to consider how honoring the past demands sustained action in the present and intentional investment in the future. Central to this message is a call to persistence: the necessity to keep going, even when progress feels incremental or unrecognized.
Through the Sankofa continuum, attendees are encouraged to recognize themselves as both inheritors and architects of history, shaping a future defined not only by access and achievement but also by purpose, stewardship, and collective uplift.
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Cross Currents: The Sankofa Continuum
Thursday, Feb. 19 from 6-8 pm
Cypress Theater
At Georgia Tech, Kenny Glenn will offer a critical reflection on the enduring relationship between history, culture, innovation, and technology. Drawing from his lived experience as a former Black male student-athlete, Glenn will examine how individual perseverance and purpose contribute to collective legacy-making within communities. His narrative situates personal achievement not as an endpoint but as part of an intergenerational continuum of responsibility, resilience, and progress.
Grounded in the principle of Sankofa—the imperative to look back in order to move forward. This talk challenges participants to understand history not solely as a body of knowledge to be studied but as a living, ongoing process in which they are active contributors. While the celebration of “firsts” remains significant, equal emphasis is placed on those who inherit responsibility and choose to advance the work when the baton is passed. Participants are invited to consider how honoring the past demands sustained action in the present and intentional investment in the future. Central to this message is a call to persistence: the necessity to keep going, even when progress feels incremental or unrecognized.
Through the Sankofa continuum, attendees are encouraged to recognize themselves as both inheritors and architects of history, shaping a future defined not only by access and achievement but also by purpose, stewardship, and collective uplift.
RSVP on Engage if interested in attending.
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