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Bold designs, honoring Black culture, sparking conversations.

Family-owned brand creating culturally rooted apparel, classroom resources, and legacy-driven goods that help people teach the truth, wear the message, and keep our stories alive.

07/05/2026

Happy Sunday Y’all!

07/02/2026

We’ve made Gil Scott-Heron easy to quote and harder to hear.

Most people know “The Revolution Will Not Be Televised.” They should. But Gil wasn’t trying to become a slogan. He was trying to train our ears.

That’s why “Ain’t No New Thing” deserves more attention.

On the surface, Gil was talking about white artists and industries stealing from our artists. Our sound. Our rhythm. Our style. Our language. Our danger. Our genius.

But he wasn’t just complaining about copying.

He was naming the pattern.

We create something out of pressure, memory, spirit, grief, joy, necessity, and survival. The machine studies it, copies it, cleans it up, changes the packaging, and sells it back to the world with the source blurred.

Gil’s response?

Ain’t no new thing.

That phrase sounds casual, like something an elder says when everybody else is acting shocked. But in Gil’s hands, it becomes a warning:

Don’t let the costume change fool you.

What he saw in record labels, radio, promoters, critics, managers, and television is still happening through streaming platforms, social media, brand campaigns, algorithms, and AI.

Our language becomes “internet slang.” Our dances become trends. Our protest becomes marketing. Our grief becomes content. Our sound becomes a playlist category.

Covet the creation. Diminish the creator.

And now AI can imitate Black-coded voices, images, artists, and stories without any actual Black life behind them. No community. No memory. No lineage. No grandma. No block. Just data, vibes, and whoever collects the check.

That is the kind of cultural theft Gil was warning about.

He just didn’t have the word “algorithm” yet.

Gil wasn’t ahead of his time because he came from the future. He looked ahead because he paid attention to the past.

That’s why “Ain’t No New Thing” still matters. It isn’t nostalgia. It isn’t defeat. It’s the art of recognizing the pattern before the machine convinces us it invented something new.

What’s one example of our culture being repackaged as “new” that more people need to understand?

06/30/2026

Did you catch Donald Hicks and friends on WHKY yesterday? It was a great show and we had a wonderful time! Thanks for hosting us ! Don’t forget, camp starts Monday and we still have a few spots open so hop over to dhbdc.org and register your 1-12 graders today!!!

06/26/2026

Main character energy with a brief interruption from the curb. 😅
I love wearing my Black Authors tee to libraries and bookstores because it always sparks the best conversations.
Get yours at the link in bio.

06/23/2026

We had such a nice time. It was so chill. The kids learned more about Maya-her history and her legacy. Even my very active eight-year-old son stayed engaged . My house was calm and relatively quiet for about two hours so I’m completely satisfied. Share with your family! Free Maya Angelou download in my linktree.

06/13/2026

06/12/2026

Sometimes I slow down and realize how lucky I am to be the first human to meet my daughter. How amazing and heavy a responsibility to get to raise and shape this fantastic human. But it’s only heavy because she’s so important. Every day of her life she’s made me smile. A beacon of Joy.

I’ve had to strip away old selves and unproductive perspectives to mother her. I used to find myself in an impossible race against time to better myself before she was old enough to notice how messed up I really am. I lost that fight. I am flawed and very human and this clever girl sees it all. But lucky me, she’s full of compassion and understanding and she loves me through it all.

Our home is a safe place to make mistakes because you’ll always be forgiven, loved and empowered to do better. I’m working hard to create that environment for the kids, and I’ve been blessed that they extend it to me. I realize my next task is to reach higher and jump further and demonstrate how to gracefully win or take the lesson - cause we never lose. We win or we learn.

05/28/2026

Maybe the problem is we keep teaching Black history in sports as a series of “firsts.”

Because “first” sounds celebratory.
But it also quietly reminds us the door was locked in the first place.

These athletes weren’t important just because they entered spaces.
They mattered because many of them exposed the rules of those spaces completely.

Some used excellence.
Some used silence.
Some used refusal.
Some used visibility.
Some sacrificed careers entirely.

But they all understood something powerful:

The game was never separate from society.

And once you realize that…
you start seeing these athletes less as entertainers —
and more as people negotiating freedom in public.

That changes the way you look at sports entirely.

How many of these people can you guess. Here's a little hint....
J.R.
W.R.
B.R.
C.F.
T.S.
C.K.
A.A.
M.A.

Comment if you got it.

05/15/2026

Octavia Butler has a way of writing that feels like remembering something ancient.

This book gives hear philosophies through Lauren Olamina and it all centers around the concept that “God is Change.”

that’s a Zen’d out concept you can meditate on for a lifetime for real. She literally creates a whole religion in this book while world building something beautiful and terrifying.

And throughout it all you have pagans like this that feel like ancient poetry.

So take a breath. Enjoy some beautiful writing today. 🤎

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