Black Love guided Dr. Carter Godwin Woodson’s scholarship and activism. In 1926, Dr. Woodson established Negro History Week; through collaborative efforts, it evolved into Black History Month. One hundred years later, we acknowledge Woodson’s labors of love by celebrating Black history and pursuing collective actions to improve schools and our community year-round. At the Umoja Community Education Foundation (UCEF), we place Black Love at the center […]
Love is not a far cry from tangible delight. The tapestry of human life contains ever-rich patterns, shape formations, and constellations reflecting the motif of human connectedness. We see semblances of it in cinema and visual art, we feel its vibration in the tones and symphonies of instruments, we hear […]
Our trans elders and transcestors have always provided the blueprints for how to live and love expansively. Through courage and care, they showed us how to nurture the discarded, how to build a chosen family when the world turned its back. Our work now is to imagine and sustain new worlds rooted in African‑centered values, worlds where enlivened spirit, truth‑telling, and compassionate care are the foundation of community life.
Gratitude is medicine for the nervous system. It softens contraction and opens the heart’s portal—the place where ancestors whisper and future generations listen.
If I hear very rhythmic sounds and music playing, be it African, Latin, or Diasporic, I can’t help but move to it, even if it’s just my little toe in my shoe that you can’t see moving. I move to it. My soul sways to it. I am the mother […]
