Stories His Father’s Wise Words Are The Key To Surviving Anti-Blackness Police forced him to let her die and made him watch. Consumed with grief, his faith was shaken. But then he remembered his enslaved father’s words.
Stories This Street Party Bridges History And Culture To Break Enslavement’s Shackles They helped lather each other in oil, affixing the devil horns to their heads. Chains and ropes dangled from their hands. This was a joyous occasion - enslavement had ended. So why were they dressed like devils?
Stories This Ancient African Symbol Reminds Us Of God’s Message For Black People In our world of constant injustice it takes courage to block out the noise and do God’s work. This ancient African symbol reminds us of the message God needs us to hear.
Stories This Is A Major “Taboo” In Our Community – And It’s Deadly “If there is to be free will at all it must accept suicide.” - Alice Walker, “Gathering Blossoms Under Fire.” Content Warning: The following story contains content about Suicide and Mental Health Issues that some may find triggering.
Stories Beware Of These Sneaky Scams Targeting People Seeking Spiritual Guidance She woke up to a message that read, “Grand rising 💫 I’m drawn to you✨ The universe is telling me your ancestors are trying to reach you. Would you like a reading beloved💛” She responded “yes!” But immediately regretted it.
Stories Burnout Is A Lingering Danger After Decades Of Deaths After cops killed him in 1995, it was like history repeated itself in 2020. And the violence just never stopped. Blood on the streets, protests, rinse and repeat. But there’s something else that’s been creeping on us, and it’s a killer, too.
Stories The Hidden History And Healing Power Behind Traditional African Medicine Western medicine focuses primarily on healing the body, but our ancestors understood that the spirit, too, is essential for good health. Here’s why the notion of healing the body and not the spirit can be sickening.
Stories Sick Of Anti-Black Spiritual Spaces, He Designed An App Just For Us! He was struggling. Like many of us, he felt isolated and was looking to deepen his relationship with spirit. He looked into meditation apps but kept running into one major wall: whiteness.
Stories His Religious Teachings Created A Safe Space For Us In This Famous City Most of us are familiar with Philadelphia’s music scene, cheesesteaks, and soft pretzels - but did you know that Philadelphia used to be called “Muslim Town because of this man’s teachings?”
Stories A White Mob Burned His Home - His Family Still Inside “To the Israelites the glory of the LORD looked like a consuming fire on top of the mountain.” - Exodus 24:17. A white mob watched his home burn — while his family was inside and screaming! Buried within the ashes of this fire is spiritual truth about lynchings.
Stories Daniel McBride Was Lynched in 1878 — But His Story Continues “Remove your sandals from your feet, for the place on which you are standing is holy ground.” - Exodus 3:5. These spaces were built for our people to heal and honor lost souls like his. So why are women like her disrespecting him with this level of white spectacle?
Stories She Wrote These Powerful Books To Address Racism And Gender A tumultuous home life turned her into an influential writer who wields words as literary weapons needed to overthrow oppression. These are her must-read books.
Stories The Spiritual Link Between Our People And "The Little Mermaid" “The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy.” - John 10:10. We’ve all been celebrating Halle Bailey playing Ariel — a Black Princess! West African spiritual folklore PROVES mermaids have always been Black!
Stories Daniel McBride Was Lynched in 1878 — But His Story Continues “Do not take revenge, my dear friends, but leave room for God’s wrath.” - Romans 12:19. Lynch mobs notoriously took “artifacts” from lynch sites. But there was one artifact they never thought to take. Now it’s been unearthed and is exposing thousands of horrors they never wanted us to know.
Stories She Turned Her Pain Into Prose In These Powerful Books “Sometimes people try to destroy you, precisely because they recognize your power — not because they don’t see it, but because they see it and they don’t want it to exist.“ bell hooks know what she was talking about. Her childhood was rife with dysfunction, but she turned her pain into prose.
Stories Fighting White Supremacy Head On, They’re Pushing Back With Faith - Literally! “Only the oppressed can receive liberating visions in wretched places.” - James Cohen. This couple knows white supremacy is a form of cowardice - and they’re quick to fight it head on! And they have an IMPORTANT reminder for us as we push back against white supremacists in our lives.
Stories To This Day, It Is Unknown Where He’s Buried “My Father’s house has many rooms; if that were not so, would I have told you that I am going there to prepare a place for you?” - JOHN 14:1-3. Gathering in the dead of night, they dug a hole and placed the body inside. They never spoke about what they did that night to anyone — until now!
Stories There Is So Much Power In Our Words When We Speak The Truth Matthew 11:15 says, “He who has ears for the truth, let him hear.” So when this Black genius spoke the truth to the most powerful white man in the country, what happened next?
Stories His Tongue Burned As Unrecognizable Words Poured From His Mouth “When I opened my mouth to say glory, a flame touched my tongue which ran down in me.” - Bishop Charles Harrison Mason. His tongue burned as words poured out of him…but they weren’t words he recognized. God was with him - was speaking THROUGH him! He had never felt more clear about his purpose.
Stories Even Though This Was A Battle Of The Soul, It’d Be Bloody "We will fight the white men. We will fight till the last of us falls in the battlefields." - Yaa Asantewaa. She bellowed these words, a charge to her people. They wouldn’t bow out from this fight - they couldn’t! The liberation of their very souls depended on it.
Stories When The World Was Too Much To Bear, These Reminded Us Of Our Greatness “Back then, Black churches were a small piece of peace. Church was a world where …. common humanity was the sustenance needed to make it through the rest of the week in a society that deemed them less than human.” Janelle Gray. There was one small accessory that made such peace possible.
Stories They Were Killed Because Of This Kind Of Faith “Take the first step in faith. You don’t have to see the first staircase, just take the first step.” – MLK. Having faith is different than having “blind faith.” It’s important we know the difference between the two — “blind faith” has been deadly for our people.
Stories Heirlooms Assure Our Blackness Can NEVER EVER Be Erased “Black people love their children with a kind of obsession. You are all we have.” - Ta-Nehisi Coates. You might look at this item and question it’s value, but to this mother it was everything. Why?
Stories Thou Shalt Not Overlook How Anti-Black This Version Of The Bible Is Ephesians 6: 5-7 commands, “Slaves, respect and fear your earthly masters. Obey and serve them with the same sincerity of heart as you serve the Anointed One.” But surely this isn’t the whole story, right?
Stories Would His Enchantment Of "Wordly" Music Send This Holy Man To Hell? Thomas Dorsey, said of his talent, “I sat down at the piano and my hands began to browse over the keys. I felt as though I could reach out and touch God. I found myself playing a melody, one I’d never heard or played before, and words came into my head.” What can we learn from his experience?
