Erika Loggin

ALT Two open doorways leading into a room in the museum, with text hanging above each. One reads “I want to help the world” and the other reads “I want to help my community,” in English and German

ALT My hand holding a pink and blue pamphlet titled “Berlin global.” I’m wearing a black and white wristband and a red dress

ALT A text panel, black writing on a white board, in English and German. The English text reads: Revolution. Photos of the fall of the Wall are iconic images of Berlin and the Peaceful Revolution. (Front.) They mark the collapse of the GDR regime and have become symbols of freedom worldwide. “We are the people,” demonstrators chanted against the GDR government in 1989. But soon many asked, “Aren’t we part of this too?” Joy often turned into disillusion and fear. Many East Berlin enterprises did not survive. Withers recruited by the GDR from other socialist countries were told to return home. Those who refused risked deportation.

ALT Part of an illustration with the title “Afro-German Movement.” An illustration of Audre Lorde says in a speech bubble “We do not have to romanticize our past in order to be aware of how it seeds our present.”