Stories How Black People From Mississippi Stood Up For Love Have you ever thought about how you walk? How do you plant your feet? Maybe you stride quickly or take small steps. No matter how we move, every single step we take is powerful, and our ancestors knew it.
Stories 3 Affirmations To Help You Reframe Love As We Know It We’ve been taught that love looks and acts a certain way, but Black love takes any form it wants. These three uplifting affirmations prove it.
Stories Why Conflict Resolution Is Holy Work Conflict resolution is loving. Conflict resolution is spirit work. Conflict resolution is how we practice sacred grace. We can’t say we’re dismantling anti-Black systems if we’ll do anything to avoid conflict. Our spiritual uplift depends on uplifting conflict.
Stories He Left Us Blueprints For Liberation In This Iconic Church Sometimes people are going to try knocking us down until we stay down. Being aligned with Spirit means that no matter who tries us, we have faith that the foundation Spirit has laid in us will keep us rising up and standing tall.
Stories Can Constant Self-Improvement Burn You Out? In today’s information-rich world, it’s easy to get caught up in self-improvement. Though we are constantly bombarded with messages that tell us we aren’t fit, rich, or smart enough, it’s okay to exist just as we are. Here are three techniques to rise above the chatter.
Stories Detroit’s Silent Secret Can Only Be Heard In Black Churches You are free. Detroit’s spiritual community is the cradle of this hidden Black history, a history that’s always ready to be remembered and sung to uplift our spirits. Can you hear Spirit singing out to us?
Stories Why Astrology Is Actually A Blackity Black Way To Tell Time Many people don’t take astrology seriously. Why should we care if Venus has entered Virgo while Mercury is in retrograde? Turns out astrology is more than just knowing your zodiac sign. Astrology is a Blackity Black way to tell time. Here’s why.
Stories It’s Time You Celebrated What Makes You Uniquely You God intended for our differences to be celebrated. While we as Black people share the experience of being “Black,” each of us is unique. Our differences have always been meant to be celebrated, championed, and stood up for.
Stories God Puts Everyone In Our Life For A Reason What does lineage mean to you? Honoring our lineages, familial and non-familial, is one way we can express sacred gratitude for the people God has put in our lives. Who in your lineage inspires you?
Stories In Church Or On The Picket Line, We’ve Got Work To Do She was the woman to watch, literally. The government had put her on numerous watch lists. But she knew that Black liberation was the message God wanted her to share with the world. Her legacy reminds us that we each have a role to play in Black liberation. And that role begins with Spirit.
Stories The Most Sacred Work We Can Do Is Service Work One of the best ways to honor the Spirit is to serve others. There’s always some kind of service work to be done. How can we be of service to others in our community?
Stories Black People Are The Children Of God He reminds us that all Black people have the right to life, liberty, and justice. Why? Because we are the true children of God.
Stories What Song Makes You Feel Free? What song do you love to sing because it makes you feel free? For our enslaved ancestors, Negro spirituals did more than lift their spirits. These songs got them free.
Stories Do You Hear God Calling To You? A lot of people aren’t going to understand the calling God has sent you to do in this lifetime, and that is ok. As you honor your calling, you’re going to be tested by distractions and people who doubt you. Stay the course. Trust in God and surrender to how the Spirit moves you.
Stories Why 2025 Isn’t Standard “New Year, New Me” Energy Many of us are likely feeling an energetic pull on our spirits right now. A nudge from Spirit that it’s time to level up. But this isn’t standard “New year, new me” energy.” It’s because we’ve entered a “Universal 9 Year.”
Stories May This List For 2025 Help Us Live Our Most Liberated Year We made it to 2025! YAAAAS LAWD! A year of reflection, community building, goal chasing, and liberation. But first we have to leave a few things in 2024. Here are three things that are in and three that are out for 2025. May this list help us live our most liberated year yet.
Stories MLK’s Last Sermon Came With A Deeply Powerful And Prophetic Message He stepped out onto the stage, prepared to address the audience. But deep in his spirit he knew death was upon him. It was urgent that he deliver one final message to his people.
Stories What The Bible’s 6 Cities Of Refuge Teach Us About Community Where do we go for refuge? We all need sanctuary from anti-Blackness. The biblical Cities of Refuge remind us of the importance of creating sacred spaces in our communities.
Stories How To Close Your Eyes And Leap Into Your Future What future would you like to create? Visualize it. If you believe that this future is possible, it can be. You just have to leap into it.
Stories There’s “Amen” And “Hallelujah,” And Then There’s A Ululation In our spiritual communities, people give praise through an energetic “Ashe,” “Amen,” “Hallelujah,” “YES,” or even the classic church hum. But are you familiar with ululations? In parts of Africa this is the highest possible praise.
Stories Black Love Is Our Compass For New World Building Black love is sacred. Black love will always be at the root for us building a new world because it gives us permission to imagine ourselves outside of whiteness. What would we do if this world were ours? With Black love, it is.
Stories Why Change Brings Us Closer To God To know God’s love is to surrender to being changed by God thousands of times. And with each change, our relationship with God changes too.
Stories Black Women Have Always Been The Heart Of Our Resistance To be loved and protected by Black women is a sacred gift. Even Spirit knows that Black women have been at the heart of our resistance. How can we show Black women the same revolutionary love they’ve put into Black liberation efforts? Revolutionary women like her deserve their flowers NOW.
Stories Nia Long’s Reminder About The Power Of Black Spirituality We all deserve protection. Nia Long says this spiritual tool is her key to gracefully aging and staying divinely protected. Here's how you can use it, too.
Stories What Dream Is Spirit Telling You To Chase? What dream is Spirit telling you to chase after? It’s time to shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you’ll become a star, just like this woman.