Author: Trelani
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Foremother Fridays – Week 8: Ida B. Wells x Zora Neale Hurston
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Ida B. Wells knew that the state wasn’t built to protect us. That we had to protect each other, and ourselves. She once said: “A Winchester rifle should have a place of honor in every Black home, and it should be used for that protection which the law refuses to…
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Foremother Fridays – Week 7: Ella Baker x Audre Lorde
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When we talk about real power, I think we have to talk about anger, too. So for the reading today, I chose Audre Lorde’s essay The Uses of Anger. It’s one of the clearest expressions, to me, of what power can look like when rooted in truth and community. She…
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Foremother Fridays – Week 6: Shirley Chisolm x Harriet Tubman
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Shirley Chisholm once said, “You don’t make progress by standing on the sidelines.” And that’s especially true when it comes to the land beneath our feet and the roofs over our heads. So many of our foremothers understood that owning land wasn’t just about property—it was about possibility. About freedom.…
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Foremother Fridays – Week 5: Madam CJ Walker + Tiffany Aliche
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Like Morgan said, Madam CJ Walker wasn’t just the first self-made woman millionaire in the U.S.—she was a blueprint for what it means to build something from the ground up, to invest in your community, and to make rest and beauty a part of the business plan. A part of…
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Foremother Fridays – Week 4: Fannie Lou Hamer + Working the Roots
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This week, we’re lifting up the legacy of Fannie Lou Hamer—a visionary who understood that healing a community meant healing the body too. She knew liberation couldn’t happen if folks were hungry or disconnected from the land. So I wanna share a passage from Working the Roots, an oral history…