Street Basketball is a Sacred Space
August 17, 2018 10:02 AM   Subscribe

The spirit of the dead must live its life one more time in an accelerated fashion before departing to the realm of the ancestors. . . . It is believed that doing what was once done frees the living from the dead and vice versa.
Ancestor Work In Street Basketball, an excerpt from Black Gods of the Asphalt: Religion, Hip-Hop, and Street Basketball by African-American scholar Dr. Onaje X.O. Woodbine (interview).
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Beautiful passage about beauty and camraderie admist incredible pain.
posted by honey badger at 5:04 AM on August 18, 2018


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