What stories have you been told about Black strength? And what truths are you willing to confront in order to unlearn them?

If most people agree Jesus wasn’t blonde with blue eyes—why is that still the image we see in churches, movies, and homes across America?

Contrary to what is being taught in schools, our story did not start or stop in the fields. After emancipation, Black people became what they always were: master builders. We wasted no time building businesses, buying land, founding towns, and forming banks.

On the plantation, slaves were not given last names in most cases. It wasn’t until after they left that these names were obtained

As surely as Abel’s blood cried out to God from the Earth, so does the blood of slain Black ancestors in America and within the path of the sea from the motherland cry out to Almighty Yah. Some were fallen with a fist held high shouting and singing “Let freedom ring!” While others were slain while slanging poison to their own brothers, sisters, mothers, sons, and daughters. But their blood cries aloud for an Abba! A Father! A Father who hears. He hears the cries of the slain