Layla Saad is an author, speaker & teacher on the topics of race, identity, leadership, personal transformation & social change. LAYLA IS THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE GROUND-BREAKING BOOK ME AND WHITE SUPREMACY (2020), THE HOST OF GOOD ANCESTOR PODCAST, AND THE FOUNDER OF GOOD ANCESTOR
A timely, crucial, and empowering exploration of racis and antiracis in
Brené with Laverne Cox on Transgender Representation, Advocacy + the Power of Love In this episode, I talk to artist, advocate, executive producer, and all-around amazing woman and friend Laverne Cox about her new, groundbreaking documentary, Disclosure: Trans Lives on Screen, the importance of policy protection for the trans community, and the seismic shifts in the world today. We also discuss the complexities of intersectionality and accountability, the difference between discomfort and safety, and the ultimate power of seeking love and living in the
Newlyweds, Celestial and Roy, are the embodiment of both the American Dream and the New South. He is a young executive and she is artist on the brink of an exciting career. They are settling into the routine of their life together, when they are ripped apart by circumstances neither could have imagined. Roy is arrested and sentenced to twelve years for a crime Celestial knows he didn’t commit. Though fiercely independent, Celestial finds herself bereft and unmoored, taking comfort in Andre, her childhood friend, and best man at their wedding. As Roy’s time in prison passes, she is unable to hold on to the love that has been her center. After five years, Roy’s conviction is suddenly overturned, and he returns to Atlanta ready to resume their life together. This stirring love story is a deeply insightful look into the hearts and minds of three people who are at once bound and separated by forces beyond their control. An American Marriage is a masterpiece of storytelling, an intimate look into the souls of people who must reckon with the past while moving forward- with hope and pain- into the
A young prodigy living in Florida looks for a way out of his poor
Black Women’s Blueprint is dedicated to social justice organizing in order to promote the struggle of Black women and girls in the context of larger racial concerns. “Our mission is to provide services and spaces for healing, reconciliation and human connection with the natural world. Working with land, we bring people together to design and practice strategies for healing, health and reparative economics.” “We are building a Reconciliation Center. We invite you to join us in building this vision for holistic reconciliation grounded in spirit, steeped in liberation and honoring our understandings of human connection with the natural world. Take action with us to create paths to peace, restoration, social, economic and environmental
