Creating Zola Mondays

⚠️ CONTENT / TRIGGER WARNING: This conversation will address lynching, hanging deaths, racial violence, racial terror, suicide, and the historical and present-day racial trauma these experiences may evoke. Please honor what your mind, body, and spirit need as you engage. 🖤

When a Black person is found hanging, history enters the room with us.

Even when the circumstances or cause of a death remain unknown, contested, or are ultimately determined not to be racially motivated, the imagery of a Black body hanging carries a painful historical meaning within our collective consciousness. For many Black folx, it can evoke grief, fear, anger, vigilance, sorrow, and memories of the racial terror our ancestors endured.

We can seek the facts while also making space for the trauma.

Tomorrow at Monday,1:00 PM ET, we invite our community to join us for Creating Zola Mondays, where we will welcome Reverend Dr. Robert Turner for a…