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Affirmation

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In Revelation 14:12 the Lord says his believers are to have patient endurance. It is what will allow us to make it through our trials and sufferings. It is not what I want to hear, but it is what I need to hear. It also gives God time to work.  This week I learned God’s view of justice and my view of justice are different.  He is able to bring all of the right circumstances and people together to create something my limited mortal mind cannot. He also said, He would be with me during this time. Endurance is teaching me trust.

Postcards, Prints and Posters

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In 2025 I will be creating postcards and prints that tell African American stories. This month, it starts with chattel slavery. I have a postcard with hands chained together. The captured people looked up. This was their view…They looked up. This image is called Homage because I dedicated it Aaron Douglas, a painter from the Harlem Renaissance who captured African American life. This postcard is $5.

Art of the Month

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Sojourner Truth was born Isabella Baumfree in 1797  and was an American abolitionist and activist for African-American civil rights, women’s rights, and alcohol temperance. She was born into slavery in Swartekill, New York, but escaped with her infant daughter to freedom in 1826. After going to court to recover her son in 1828, she became the first black woman to win such a case against a white man. She changed her name to Sojourner Truth in 1843 after she became convinced that God had called her to leave the city and go into the countryside “testifying to the hope that was in her.” Her best-known speech was delivered extemporaneously, in 1851, at the Ohio Women’s Rights Convention in Akron, Ohio. The speech became widely known during the Civil War by the title “Ain’t I a Woman?” She died November 26, 1883,

Year In Review

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In 2024 there was a lot going on.

In February, the short film, The Invitation was in the Bill Johnson Black Film Festival iin Gary Indiana. TV Talk with the Sistas made the finalist list for the Essence Film Festival, but we were not chosen. It was an honor to make the finalist list.

I also had an article published in the Black Lawrence Press anthology, Mamas, Martyrs, and Jezebels.

I presented several More Than A Color presentations throughout the state of Illinois.

It was a fun year.