We Have a New Logo

Research

Dec 19

Last week, in viewing our non-profit corporation logo, a friend said:

“Is this your wife’s silhouette? Curious about the back story!"

I explained that it wasn't any particular person, just a generic image meant to represent the plight of the American enslaved. It was meant to highlight the largely unsung leadership role the African-American woman has always played, which is why I intentionally depicted the woman as leading. It’s in dark shades to represent the difficult in finding and seeing who they were due to lack of documentation.

The more I thought about the question of my friend, the more I thought it would make much more sense to make the silhouettes actual people. What an opportunity to add to the symbolism with real individuals having their own alignment and backstory.

Therefore, I've changed the logo. It's now the actual silhouettes of my wife Erica and I. Erica has been the voice of reason for our family for 34 years, saving me more than I can count...so it aligns in more ways than one.

I truly hope you all like the new logo. Please feel free to leave a comment or send me a message with your thoughts.

John Mills

Originally from San Diego, John Mills is a technologist by trade, but an equity advocate and independent scholar by passion. The descendant of both southern and northern enslaved, John focuses on unearthing little known people and stories of this country’s history in slavery and the transatlantic slave trade. John presents research through the lens and perspective of a descendant, with intent to inspire understanding and empathy, a means to inspire good, God fearing people, now armed with information, to look into whether they may be unwittingly aligning to biases resulting from the reverberating effects of a past time. John is a member of the Connecticut Freedom Trail and a member of the Webb Deane Stevens Museum Council. John is also working with an international team funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) in an effort to deliver transformational impact on digital methods in cultural institutions...a means to decolonize museums. Finally, John is working with the state of Connecticut, business leaders and scholars in Middletown, CT to honor and memorialize a former enslaved individual by the name of Prince Mortimer.

https://alexbreanne.org

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