I spoke at a Juneteenth festival this year and asked everyone to consider their future. What do they want for their children and great-great-grandchildren? A 13-year-old young man's response, "I don't know." Here's to knowing...
An Octavia Butler superfan, who wants more non-dystopian stories of what our future could look like.
Restoration is Revolutionary
Picture it. Forty grown folk laying on mats on a Thursday evening in SW Atlanta’s Black Mecca space. Led by Dr. Tricia Hersey, founder of the Nap Ministry and author of the book Rest is Resistance. She brought home the power of rest and had us contemplate on what messages we had been continuously and …
Rest is Revolutionary
It’s Black History Month and I so appreciate the month set aside to lift up the history of Black people in this country. Yes, we need to study and acknowledge our history all year long AND the attention a month like this one gives us is worthwhile. All kinds of people, colleges and corporations are …
Wealth Hoarding
To learn more about how systemic racism is baked into the Economy, the L4J community read and discussed an article entitled Why do we allow infinite wealth accumulation? Perhaps because we have glorified it to the Nth degree in our world. You know how we look at hoarders of things, food, trash, memorabilia, etc? We …
Faith is the Key
We gotta have faith in each other. We gotta have faith in ourselves. We gotta be real sisters and brothers. We ain’t got time to act like nobody else. Abiodun, The Last Poets One of the coolest moments for me during our annual Family Kwanzaa gathering on January 1st was when we all started singing …