Came across this video today. Â Writer/Activist Ashley Yates describes it this way:Â “Black art made by Black people from with real love for other Black folks. No exploitation, just storytelling with textured depictions of our people that lack clich...
Continue ReadingThe Ring Shout is a powerful, ancestral ritual of song and rhythmic movement that Black people in the USA have practiced for many generations.  It is a form of worship that we developed during slavery – combining the sacred songs of our strength and ...
Continue ReadingHuman creativity is straight up boundless. BOUND-LESS. Do you hear? Check out this short Instagram video that the Alvin Ailey dance company made, in social isolation, featuring the magnificent choreography of “I’ve Been Buked” — ...
Continue Reading – with Ruby Sales and Michelle Alexander at Riverside Church in NYC, April 4, 2017 The Veterans of Hope Project joins the Iliff School of Theology and Riverside Church for a commemoration of the fiftieth anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s â...
Continue ReadingOn May 17, students, faculty and alumni from the Iliff School of Theology gathered to remember and celebrate the lives and spirit of our co-founders, Vincent and Rosemarie Freeney Harding, in honor of the third anniversary of Vincent’s passing. Â...
Continue ReadingMakota Valdina Pinto is a native of Salvador, Bahia Brazil and an elder in the Kongo-Angola tradition of Afro-Brazilian Candomblé. She is an environmental justice activist, a specialist in ritual and herbal healing, and an well-respected grassroots hist...
Continue ReadingOn the eve of our presidential election, this article and short video reminds us of the courageous history we have in our nation.  Black people in small towns in Arkansas are fighting valiantly to make sure that all votes are counted — in the fac...
Continue ReadingDaniel Minter is an extraordinarily accomplished and dedicated contemporary American artist. A painter, sculptor, illustrator and art educator his vision connects the symbols and stories of the Black American South with the cultural and ritual traditions...
Continue ReadingIn the photo above, from November 2015, Makota Valdina Pinto — an esteemed elder in the Angola Candomblé tradition — offers popcorn in a rite of cleansing and blessing to participants in an annual march for religious tolerance and res...
Continue ReadingCOME TO THE FOLDING CHAIR SIT-INÂ with RUBY SALES and SISTERS IN STRUGGLE in PHILADELPHIA, DEC 16 and 17 In response to voter suppression and other illegal acts of disenfranchisement that handed Donald Trump a victory he did not earn, Sisters in Struggle ...
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