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black love as a radical commitment – adrienne maree brown

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this space, the franklinton center at bricks, was once a place that slaves were sent to be broken in. for centuries. and then it was a christian school in the same white charitable tradition that led to many of our historical black colleges and universities. for decades. now it is a retreat center and, if prayers are responded to, in the most tangible manifestations, the future home of BOLD – black organizing for leadership and dignity. reparations, soil up. i donate facilitation time to BOLD each year because i believe it is our best chance at liberation. not just black liberation, though that would be enough. but i believe that the liberation of black people represents a realization of the human experiment, the resolution of a tension born out of our distance from the sacred truth of who we are. stardust. we are sentient miraculous beings. on a magnificent planet, possibly the most biologically diverse planet in an apparently infinite universe, or multiverse. at least so far. who kno

i am writing to you from a plantation, but it might also be the future. this space, the franklinton center at bricks, was once a place that slaves were sent to be broken in. for centuries. and then it was a christian school in the same white charitable tradition that led to many of our historical black colleges and universities. for decades. now it is a retreat center and, if prayers are responded to, in the most tangible manifestations, the future home of BOLD – black organizing for leadership and dignity. reparations, soil up. i donate facilitation time to BOLD each year because i beli

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