Protecting Our Ancestors’ Creative Legacy
ABOUT THE STORYTELLER
Nashid Furaha-Ali identifies himself as an Elder from Philly, Artist, Storyteller and Communicator. He writes because he can. With his writing, he intends to move the imaginations of Black Creatives to create a world we can live in. Affectionately known as the “Pop Pop Gro’ Sum’n” Storyteller, Nashid hosts Arc(K)’s Sankofa Village Unity Storytelling Hour on WURD Philadelphia. Tune in at 96.1 FM and 900 AM, and via livestream on https://wurdradio.com Sunday evenings at 6:00 pm Eastern.
Protecting
Our Ancestors’
Creative Legacy
BY NASHID FURAHA-ALI
Copyright 2026. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
Yo
Creatives
Hear
That?
What?
Ancestors
are calling us.
They
saying,
“Please
protect
our
creative
legacy.”
Who Are the Ancestors?
Creatives …
Our family …
Our people …
“US”
divinely
inspired
creative
energy
gifted.
Why Do Our Ancestors
Call Us At This Moment?
Because
now is
the time.
More
than
ever
before,
a bitter
frigid wind
blows
to
imperil
our
Ancestors’
creative
legacy.
We’re
their
great
grandchildren
and
draw inspiration
from the
DNA
wellsprings
of
their
creativity.
Who else
they goanna’
call?
What’s Going On?
The bitter frigid
wind blows
no good,
relentlessly
destroying,
deconstructing,
gentrifying,
whitewashing or
totally erasing
our Ancestors’
creative legacy
all over this planet.
Where’s Actual Proof?
Philly PA
The Liberty Bell,
Thurs. Jan. 22, 2026,
A federal
commemoration
artistically
illustrating (panels,
narratives and videos)
the legacy of
our Ancestors’
life, plight
and creative skills
they conjured up
in their early
colonial days,
dismantled
and gutted
by executive George Washington
at America’s 1st White House.
The frame of their house proudly stood as
a monument to our Ancestors’ legacy
stood for sixteen years until in 120 minutes
the frigid bitter winds took it out.
(I hear the names of nine Ancestors,
(I call “the Divine 9”),
remain on the site as
mementos of emptiness
devoid of truth and the
real story.
How Do Creatives
Answer Our Ancestors’
Call?
Creatives Creating.
BlackLit In Unity.
Charging what we create
with love and energy
from the legacy of our
Ancestors - creativeness,
divinely inspired.
Let our creativity speak both for itself
and the Ancestors’ creative legacy.
Our Ancestors’ legacy is ours too.
We protect it when we tell the story
Truthfully as it
should be told by
Creatives.
BlackLit.
Peace.
Written by
Nashid Furaha ~Ali
for KIZA BlackLit
January 26, 2026