The Case For Recording Stories About Our Heroes
In this recording Michael Felts, a cofounder of Traditions of the Ancestors, TOTA, is telling a story of how he began a journey of building an online cultural encyclopedia that…
The Case For Recording Stories About Our Heroes
In this recording Michael Felts, a cofounder of Traditions of the Ancestors, TOTA, is telling a story of how he began a journey of building an online cultural encyclopedia that has recently changed course. TOTA is currently developing into a never before available platform, that is helping people capture first-person narratives of their elders and community leaders. If, through the telling of the following story Michael is successful, most viewers will leave here not only willing to support TOTA’s growth, they will want to learn how they can launch their own TOTA Group and begin capturing stories of the important people in their lives.
In this next Phase of Traditions of the Ancestors, Michael and his team aspire to become the central location people come to for memorializing and sharing the living stories of their, elders, community leaders and heroes. These first-person narratives will help tell the story of the past century and provide bridges to understanding the Traditions of Our Ancestors.
October 11th, Take Two: In this story Michael tells two stories, thirty years apart, that demonstrate the power of the Ivy TBD:
October 4th: Take One: In the following video Michael Felts recounts an experience early in his career of community service, where he gain inclusion a community of incarcerated black men.
“I was born with a seat at one kind of table. This story is about me getting a seat at a different table. A table that changed my life, and opened me to a new reality.”
In this story he is…..
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