“When you educate a man,” says Dr. Johnnetta B. Cole, “you educate an individual. But when you educate a woman, you educate a nation.” One woman decided to use her many gifts to help her people, who were being forced to abandon their religion and worship the white colonizer’s way. How did she do it?

Exodus 2:2-3: “When she could no longer keep him hidden away, she took a basket made of reeds, sealed it with tar and pitch, and placed her baby boy in it. Then she wedged the basket among the reeds along the edge of the Nile River.”

Black liberation theology recognizes our agency as a people and our birthright of Divine love. Galatians 5:13: “You, my brothers and sisters, were called to be free. But do not use your freedom to indulge the flesh; rather, serve one another humbly in love.”