Roots & Hope

Soulful Reflections on Faith, Healing, and Young Adulting

Category: liberation

  • always learning home: being black in the midwest

    Geography ain’t innocent. In the U.S. alone, white colonizers stole and spit on land, partly through mapping, naming, occupying, and defining borders with no regard for Indigenous communities. They committed genocide and displacement while also stealing my ancestors from Africa for centuries of bondage. Within the context of geography, I have long hoped to understand…

  • A Love Note to Black EDUCATORS: My trip to NEw Orleans

    To whom can the title, educator, call home? How is it defined and fully embodied? Questions like these underlie my life’s hope of honoring legacies and possibilities for Black, intergenerational wisdom and healing. In mid-October, a graduate school fellowship brought me back to New Orleans, Louisiana. My first time going was in July 2019. That…