Why I Do Court Case Work — Ifa, Justice & the Black Community

There are some things I was called to do before I fully understood why. Court case work is one of them. I have been doing spiritual support work for individuals facing the criminal justice system for years — long before it became something I advertised, long before I had language for why it felt so […]

Ancestral Healing and Why Black America Needs It Now | Ronda Foster

There is a wound that runs through Black American life that no therapy modality invented in a European university has been fully equipped to address. It is not just personal trauma. It is not just generational trauma in the psychological sense. It is something older and deeper — a severing from identity, from land, from […]

The True Origin of Juneteenth: What They Don’t Teach You

Most people know Juneteenth as the day enslaved people in Texas finally learned they were free — June 19, 1865, two and a half years after the Emancipation Proclamation was signed. And while that moment is real and worth honoring, the full story of Juneteenth is deeper, older, and far more layered than what gets […]

African American Herbalism: How the Tradition Thrives Today

Herbalism has a deep-rooted history in North America, particularly within African American culture. For centuries, African Americans have utilized the healing properties of plants to treat a variety of ailments and foster overall wellness. From the days of slavery, African Americans used their knowledge of herbalism to treat illnesses and injuries that were often ignored […]

African American Herbalism: The Roots of a Healing Tradition Part 1

Herbalism, or the study and use of plants for medicinal and healing purposes, has a long and rich history in many cultures around the world. For African Americans, this history is intertwined with the legacy of slavery and the ways in which plant knowledge was passed down through generations of enslaved people. During slavery, African […]