What is Sankofa and how does it relate to helping youth on Oakland connect to their inner voices and to an understanding of the environment? The answers to that question come in a powerful Tedx talk from Oakland's Zakiya Harris, founder of Grind for the Green and director of the Get Fresh Festival happening August 14th in Mosswood Park in Oakland, and San Francisco's Pandora Thomas from the Global Exchange.  These two inspiring leaders have a talk they gave in June about  youth, teaching and  and green that is well worth a view. Inspired by the work of Octavia Butler, their talk on Earthseed , Sankofa, and other other West African principles being used to connect youth with themselves and the earth shows the vision of two wonderful educators working hard to make a difference.

On August 14, 2010, Harris and Thomas will both collaborate in creating Get Fresh. In collaboration with Youth Movement Records, Livity Clothing, Global Exchange, Ella Baker Center for Human Rights, Oakland Green Youth Media Arts Center and others,  they are producing the 2010 FreshFrest, a solar-powered eco-music festival which makes its East Bay debut in Oakland’s Mosswood Park.