May 24th-26th ✍️🏿✍️🏾✍️🏽 The Southern Esesu Endeavor Digital Retreat #thesouthernesesuendeavor

Elijah literally told God he was exhausted, overwhelmed, and ready to give up, and instead of punishment or disappointment, God responded with rest, food, and care so pretending to be okay when you are not doesn’t impress Him, it just distances you from the intimacy that comes with truth. God is not asking for perfection, He is asking for honesty.

Calling filmmakers and storytellers! BRIC TV is accepting pitches for scripted short films and pilots, with production funding supported by the National Endowment for the Arts. Apply byFriday, April 10 bricartsmedia.org/art-artist…

Is God Is - 5/15 I Love Boosters (Boots Riley) - 5/22 Lady (Olive Nwosu) - TBA That’s Her (Nina Lee) - TBA If I Go Will They Miss Me (Walter Thompson-Hernández) - FALL 2026 this doesn't just end at You, Me and Tuscany! pls lets support these black films in 2026 <3

When your circle small but you all Oscar winners 🙂‍↕️🙂‍↕️🙂‍↕️

James Clear on having high standards:

The woman with the issue of blood spent everything, suffered alone for 12 years. When she touched Jesus in desperation, He stopped, turned, and was delighted to call her “Daughter.” Your long wait doesn’t mean He forgot you. He delights in your faith, however small. Reach out. He’s turning toward you with joy

Epiphany’s Breakout Prize is open, and it’s not just for students—all writers who haven’t published a full-length book can apply. Winners in each category (poetry and prose) will receive a $1,000 cash prize and publication in our next issue. Apply through the link in our bio!

The Inca didn’t “lack writing.” They used khipu. This was knotted, color-coded fiber cords engineered to record census counts, labor obligations (mit’a), storehouse inventories, tribute flows, and administrative data across thousands of miles of empire. Position, knot type, cord hierarchy, and color all carried meaning. Decimal accounting. Layered structure. Trained specialists who could read and audit them. Thousands survive. An empire of millions ran on portable data architecture… without paper, without ink. Literacy doesn’t have to look like a page.

The African American, African, and Black Diaspora Studies e-book collection for libraries includes 636 titles that span the humanities and social sciences, covering history, religion, literature, art, anthropology, and more. Browse the collection: buff.ly/w8N90XK

Writing this down on my whiteboard in my room

Ryan Coogler becomes the first Black man in BAFTA’s 77-year history to win Best Original Screenplay for ‘SINNERS’.

Our next online issue is themed ANGER! We want your zoom soliloquy to your therapist, a stichic of your road rage, a love letter to your absent internal peace, an abecedarian denouncing the dept of education, a seething sonnet with a pacifying volta. beavermag.org/submit

RT @josbjohnson: whatever you do, do not die with your music still in you. I don’t care what the music is. a practice. a craft. a disciplin…

This is one of the best books that I've read on the history of the slave trade and a book that I would highly recommend.

If you want to start drawing, there this a channel on YouTube (I am not affiliated with it) called Draw Sessions. Go to its playlists and find the foundation one. Early videos cover fundamentals including how to hold a pencil and how to change pressure. Really useful, all free!

‘all dolled up’ oil on canvas 💋

Turtle fact: turtles have 13 larger plates at the center of their shell and 28 along the outer edge, corresponding perfectly to the 13 lunar cycles in a year and the 28 days in a lunar month. This also happens to correspond to a woman’s menstrual cycle. Because of this, many Indigenous cultures saw the turtle as a living calendar, a symbol of cycles, wisdom, and the feminine rhythms of life.

Here’s a copy of The Annotated African American Folktales for anyone interested in reading 📖 tinyurl.com/jzvav5rx