Lisa Sharon Harper

My mother @sharonllawrence , her brother Richie, my grandmother Willa and great grandfather Hiram fishing on the dock of the Atlantic City Bay—mere years before the words “eminent domain” entered their lives and changed things forever. “In this powerful and necessary book, Lisa Sharon Harper does something truly unique. By telling the story of her own family, she tells the story of America through a deeply Christian lens. As truthful as it is hopeful, this beautifully written book about resistance, healing, memory, place, history, justice, and identity shows how we are all still shaped by the stories we tell. This is a story that will stay with you.”—Sarah Bessey, editor of New York Times bestseller A Rhythm of Prayer; author of Miracles and Other Reasonable Things LINK IN BIO 📷 by Junius F. Lawrence (my grandfather) #fortunebook #truthtellingistheworkofrightnow

When I searched the 1850 Virginia Census for a possible owner of my 2nd great grandfather, Philip Fortune, I found something I didn’t expect. I found Philip, himself. He was 6 years old, living in Essex County, Virgina. Black and free—11 years *before* the Civil War. That was our first clue—and the first in a river of questions. How were Philip and his whole Black family free before emancipation? Our search revealed the roots and development of racial caste on American soil—and a family determined to subvert it. “Lisa Sharon Harper gives us a glimpse of her family’s survival, resistance, and resilience through her bold storytelling. In this epic narrative, she reminds us that our stories aren’t entirely lost to racial injustice. We can reclaim the richness and brilliance of our stories, our people, and our faith. Fortune will have your attention on every page and provoke each of us to explore our family history and discover redemptive visions for ourselves and our family lineage.” —Latasha Morrison, New York Times and ECPA bestselling author of Be the Bridge; president and founder of Be the Bridge LINK IN BIO 📷 by unknown #fortunebook #truthtellingistheworkofrightnow

A poem for the uncounted Gazan souls: We see you. By Lisa Sharon Harper #palestine #freepalestine #ceasefirenow🇵🇸 #gaza #freedomroad

I’m on my way back from All Roads Lead to the South and will be joining @revdrbarber , @wilsonhartgrove , and @robertpjonesdc to talk about the Bad Faith on the National Mall. Tune in via my The Truth Is… Substack at 5:15pm ET! (at)lisasharonharper

Against her parents’ wishes, my mother traveled to the SNCC training retreat in Atlanta in 1966. 60 years later, I kissed her “See you later” as I began my journey back to Montgomery and Selma, AL for the largest mobilization of the black community and allies since the Civil Rights Movement. We understand the assignment—to dream, design, and build a new way of being together in the world. This new way will not stand on the logics of domination, but mutual flourishing. It will not attempt to secure Black people’s place on the propped up scaffolding of human hierarchy, designed and built by slaveholding founders. Rather, in the rubble of Trump’s America, powered by Creator God, and inspired by our ancestors’ resistance to the lie of supremacy, our assignment is to dream and build the next America! Every moment of my life was leading to this—every time my mother sang O Freedom over me as a child, every time I led a pilgrimage through Montgomery, Selma, Money MS, every time I led a training on faith-rooted organizing. It all led to this. Today, it’s on! See you in Montgomery! #allroadsleadtothesouth

Legacy news media are going after @misanharriman , twisting his words, lifting them out of context, and driving a veritable lynch mob to silence one of the most significant voices for peace and justice of this era. Don’t let them do it. Join me. Take quick and easy action @newscord_org (🔗 in bio) Goal is 100,000. Let’s smash that today!

The dismantling of the Voting Rights Act is a reminder that we have unfinished business. This fight is ours — and we are going to finish it. I’ll be there, will you join me? Either we are complicit with this history making injustice or we make a better story of collaborating with freedom and justice for all🔥✌🏻💪🏻 PS. White Folks, you are invited✌🏻The organizers wanted me to let ya know. Don’t be shy, please come! #DayOfAction #VotingRights #montgomery

The Original Mother’s Day Proclamation: Women Ending War The original Mother’s Day Proclamation, penned by Julia Ward Howe in 1870, was not a celebration of motherhood but a feminist call to arms to broker Peace and end the war. She envisioned mothers being powerful brokers of peace between nations in conflict. Share this Mothers day Proclamation to use your voice to unite with mothers around the world to demand the war on the children in Gaza end. On Mothers Day We call for: Immediate life saving food, clean water and medicine allowed into Gaza Will you use your voice and join us? Write your name in the comments to honor Mother’s Day by calling for life saving food and medicine to be immediately allowed into Gaza. 🤩Tag your another women to use her voice ✌🏻Repost and Share..our voices can flood the airwaves this Mothers Day! #mothersday #antiwar #feminist Now is our time to use our voices and unite women to fight for every child in Gaza like it’s our own.

I’ll be there. Join me. AllRoadsLeadToTheSouth.com Saturday, May 16 Montgomery, Alabama #votingrightsact

Just sayin’. Reflections on Latosha Brown’s “We Are The Architects Now” | Kitchen Table Conversations with Lisa Sharon Harper

Reflections on Latosha Brown’s “We Are The Architects Now”| Kitchen Table Conversations with Lisa Sharon Harper

The original Mothers' Day Proclamation, Julia Ward Howe, 1870: Arise, then... women of this day! Arise, all women who have hearts, whether our baptism be that of water or of tears! Say firmly: We will not have great questions decided by irrelevant agencies. Our husbands shall not come to us, reeking with carnage, for caresses and applause. Our sons shall not be taken from us to unlearn all that we have been able to teach them of charity, mercy and patience. We, women of one country, will be too tender of those of another country to allow our sons to be trained to injure theirs. From the bosom of the devastated earth a voice goes up with our own. It says: Disarm, Disarm! The sword of murder is not the balance of justice. Blood does not wipe out dishonor, nor violence vindicate possession. As men have often forsaken the plough and the anvil at the summons of war, let women now leave all that may be left of home for a great and earnest day of council. Let us meet first, as women, to bewail and commemorate the dead. Let us then solemnly take counsel with each other as to the means whereby the great human family can live in peace, each bearing after his own kind the sacred impress, not of Caesar, but of God. In the name of womanhood and of humanity, I earnestly ask us to form a general congress of women, without limit of nationality, may be appointed and held at some place deemed most convenient, and at the earliest period consistent with its objects, to promote the alliance of the different nationalities, the amicable settlement of international questions, the great necessity of peace.” Mothers Day Call to Action: Women uniting to record the Mothers Day Proclamation to voice our demand to the Israeli Government stop starving Gaza. When: Record a video of yourself recording this proclamation by yourself or with your friends or mother by Saturday May 10th 12pm. Video will be posted on Mothers day, May 10th at noon.