While writing American Change Agent: A Life & Legacy of Seeking Diversity, Equality, and Inclusion (2025), we gathered our family’s history from conversations with family members, oral history stories passed down from previous generations, newspapers, obituaries, calendars, event tickets and program booklets, local/state/national history, books, websites, documents and photos kept by family members, American and Canadian censuses, AfricanAncestry.com, and Ancestry.com. Each piece of our family history reminded us to honor and celebrate the presence, lives, and contributions of our ancestors as American history.
As the United States prepares to celebrate the 250th anniversary of its founding, we want to take a moment and encourage you and your family and friends to honor and celebrate your family history as American history.
We also invite you to join us for a book and group discussion about the importance of celebrating family history as American history on Saturday, June 27th from 3 p.m. to 4 p.m. ET via Zoom. During the free event, we will talk briefly about key moments in our family history that we honor and lead a group discussion about the importance of you celebrating your family history.
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Ananda Leeke 