What is the importance of Sankofa in the memoir, I'm Still Here?

While attending college at North Park University, Brown went on a three-day historical trip to the South called Sankofa with her roommate. The goal of the trip was to educate students about the atrocities of historical racial injustices and to foster a dialogue among students of different races. Brown recalls many of the Black students, herself included, feeling outraged after visiting a Louisiana plantation because of the "romanticism" of the tour guides' descriptions of "happy slaves" (55) (the students were also encouraged to pick cotton in the fields). A visit to a museum centered around the history of lynching proved somewhat more productive, as at least one white student was moved to devote herself to the cause of antiracism after learning about the horrors of the antebellum and Jim Crow South.