“The oppressor can never be trusted as historian. Our task is preservation. Collective memory is a liberation practice. Remember and tell it.” – Cole Arthur Riley
The Water Dancer
“I had, by then, done my share of reading on Philadelphia, so I knew that, in another time, when the Task was here in Philadelphia, the city had fallen victim to a fever. And among the men who combatted this fever was Benjamin Rush, a famous doctor, which is hard to countenance given the theory he put forth in defense …