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Malikia Kayinyemi
The daughter of Vanessa Howell and Eric Johnson, the granddaughter of Claretha and Willie B. Johnson and Patricia Caver and Charles Johnson. Malikia is a builder of community, a capoeirista, a dancer, and a public archivist.
Grounded in the principles of Kwanzaa and Ma’at, she is interested in archiving stories outside of the digital sphere that are owned by the people telling them. She is a 2017 CoFED Fellow and a Howard University graduate with two B.A. degrees in Sociology and Africana Studies. Johnson is a core member of the Grassroots Economic Organizing Collective, a group that seeks to catalyze worker coops and the solidarity economy.
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Johnson is the founding co-creator of the Take Care of Each Other World Tour, an oral history voyage exploring the intricacies of collaborative and cooperative communities throughout the United States.
Take Care of Each Other
What does Take Care of Each Other even mean?
This phrase has been special to my being for a couple of years now. When I saw it I was instantly grounded in the understanding that I am a small part of a very large thing and that we all are. The least we can do is try to take care of each other as we navigate it all. It is such a simple phrase that encompasses the entirety of my motives for this project. This is not to suggest that the work required of this phrase is easy. It is quite difficult but that doesn't make the work less necessary. The"other", for me, is inclusive of future generations, of the flora and fauna around us, and of course the people we encounter everyday. The "care" can be as simple as letting another being be. If you feel so inclined, I'd love to hear your interpretation of it. Find my email here.