The life of beautiful Black healer, daughter, niece, loved one, and ray of sunshine - #BreonnaTaylor - was stolen by police in Louisville, Kentucky on March 13, 2020. As word slowly spread around the world, Black women, especially, felt a collective piercing wound. We were reminded of the words of honored Ancestor Zora Neale Hurston who stated that “Black women are the mules of the world.” But Divine Spirit and Breonna Taylor reminds us that…the world may try to make us into mules, but BLACK WOMEN ARE DIVINE.
Since 2020, Black Lives Matter Grassroots has called for a reclamation of Black women’s divinity. This has taken shape in the form of community honors, celebrations, and acts of love. Black Lives Matter - Los Angeles will host our annual arts, healing and love festival on Sunday, March 17th at Norman O. Houston Park…with performances by Aloe Blacc, Aja Monet, our own Yazmin Monet Watkins, and Kayo, and more, healing services, including: reiki, massage, acupuncture, and spiritual counseling, healthy delicious lunch, gifts, and outpourings of love…all free for Black women, girls, and femmes. People who are not Black women are invited to show their love by bringing gifts, volunteering, and spending the month loving up on the Black women in your own lives.
All month long, be inspired by Divine Black Women honored daily on IG @blmgrassroots, and plug in to do the righteous work of Black liberation.