A couple of days before the turn of the gregorian calendar new year, I visited Black Star Square.
I felt the energy of two of my heroes, Marcus Garvey and Kwame Nkrumah.
I climbed the arch, waved the flag, walked around the square, and a vision came to me…
I imagined holding an event in that vast space, communing and building with descendants of the continent from all over… reigniting the passion of those great leaders.
The next day by the pool, I shared this experience with @badassboz and she excitedly told me that the new year’s extravaganza she curated had expanded to include a dinner and a huge new year’s celebration— with performances and fireworks— in the iconic setting of… Black Star Square!!
It. Was. EPIC.
There were so many synchronicities and instantaneous manifestations on that trip.
With everything going on in the world, I am overwhelmed, sometimes to tears, by the gratitude I feel for my privilege. For the luxury of being able to dream, to envision, to travel, and to co-create my own life, as well as the new world, for future generations, inshallah.
With clarity of sight and hearts full of intention, we walked straight from the club to the ocean… paid homage to the ancestors that had been forced to traverse those waters, received Yemaya’s blessing, watched the Sun rise, and offered the deepest prayers of our hearts to Spirit.
The words in this video are by Alana Fairchild, from “Rumi Oracle: An Invitation Into the Heart of the Divine”
Happy 2024!!!!!
Wraps n’ Raps headwrap line is launching soon!
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I can’t wait to share more with you all, but in the meantime, we communed here on this Live, on the 19th of June, being free, fly and fabulous in our ancestors’ names. Asé
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Thank you for being with me at the beginning of this exciting journey!
Love y’all so much! 🥰🙏🏾
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AND happy early birthday to the Cancers who came on the live! It’s your season!!!
Thank you to @thecrownact and to our amazing allies at @dove for an inspiring afternoon of discussion with changemakers, both in the field and in the court rooms where the legislation that protects the simple freedom to exist as we are, are being fought for.
As someone who has been on the front lines of the movement for the past two decades, championing for artists to have hairstylists on the sets of film and television shows who know how to do our hair well (AND keep it healthy in the process), while also insisting on diversity in the hairstyles of the characters that I play, I have been following The Crown Act very closely for the past five years and I am so incredibly proud of how far we have come!!! 26 states on board, 24 more to go! 💪🏾💁🏾♀️
Thank you to the event’s host and my dear friend, the fabulous @taibeau 🙏🏾🥰
& Congratulations to all of the honorees! 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
The 84th Annual Peabody Awards were held in Los Angeles last night, and I have to admit, when I saw Lavar Burton, my inner child squealed with glee as the lyrics to “Reading Rainbow” came back to me:
“Butterfly in the sky,
I can fly twice as high…
I can go anywhere…
I can be anything,”
And I definitely felt that truth in that beautifully diverse room of thinkers, entertainers healers and doers… sharing the stage with folks like Kumail Nanjiani, Billy Crystal, Mel Brooks, Quinta Brunson, Patrick Stewart, Regina Hall, Lilly Singh, Donald Glover, Michaela Jae Rodriguez, Emmanuel Acho, Joseph Gordon-Levy, Bisan Owda (virtually of course ), Amanda Seales, and many more inspiring beings doing important work on the planet.
I was honored to present two awards: one, to the podcast, “The Retrievals” and the other, to the documentary, “The Post Roe Baby Boom: Inside Mississippi’s Maternal Health Crisis.”
Congratulations to all of the honorees!
Many thanks to the Peabody Board of Jurors and the entire organization for having me. 🙏🏾💕
