BLACK HISTORY

Florida’s History of African Resistance

The story of the Maroons is missing from American education

Leonard Parkinson, Maroon Leader, Jamaica, 1796 — Public Domain image

Last week, I saw one of my mentors — the filmmaker Haile Gerima. He was working when I stepped into his editing station, located in the heart of Washington D.C., near Howard University. At the time, Gerima was busy editing two documentary films, one…