Spirit of Blackness: The Power of Forgiveness
Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong. It is a conscious and deliberate decision to release feelings of resentment or vengeance toward someone who has harmed you. Practicing isn’t easy, […]
Deconstructing Anti-Blackness: Celebrating Black Culture
One of the pillars of racism has been persistent attempts, over the past four centuries, to establish the false narrative of white supremacy through the demonizing of blackness. The irony of such a distorted narrative has been the simultaneous appropriation of every aspect of black culture, which lies at the root of virtually every form of American art and expression. Join us as we explore this question: How can we love the expression of a people while denigrating the people themselves?
Spirit of Blackness: Building Spiritually-Based Community
The idea behind these is to forge ties of genuine friendship — based on a common understanding of our lives – among participants of diverse backgrounds. The social barriers that […]
Spirit of Blackness: Black Community, Mixed Community, White Community
The conventional wisdom on racial integration in the United States is that there are three kinds of neighborhoods: The all-white, the all-black, and the exceedingly rare, highly unstable, racially mixed […]
Spirit of Blackness: Pupil of the eye, Qualities of the heart.
African Americans have a unique contribution to make in America, fulfilling a destiny to lead the world spiritually… If you are a person of African descent and have not registered […]
Fireside Chat Series: I am tired, but I can’t rest.
A young adult review on current social issues. How are they responding and building personal capacities to change their lives while reshaping the future?
Spirit of Blackness: Finding Joy during Difficult Times
When people live in a world that devalues them because they are black or brown as well as dismisses their contributions to the larger society, Black Joy is and has […]
