Always a great reminder right? Still can’t believe this was a real billboard, it’s a blessing that keeps on giving thank you God 🙏🏾
Photo credit: @thejohnennis —-> follow @blkcreatives ✨
Happy #blackhistorymonth good people. ♥️
As a writer, creative, or just a lover of storytelling, what through lines do you see between This Is Us and Paradise? (Given that they’re created by the same person, who works with a lot of the same major players on both shows in front of and behind the camera). a few of my favorites:
- Playing across timelines. The writers go from the present, to the past, back to the present, and sometimes in the future.
- N.E.R.Ding out. N(o) O(ne) E(ver) D(ies) in the show thanks to well placed flashbacks.
What are some things that you have connected between the two?
Literally one of my favorite shows on TV right now @paradiseonhulu@streamthisisus
When I wrote ‘This world does not move without Black creativity’ back in 2020 I meant it. I LIVE by it so I’m putting pen to paper to share the full meaning of it.
If you’re a fan of THIS ✨billboard, I have something extra special coming for you and the only way you’ll get the news is by subscribing to my newsletter @writeatthetable 📧 — details coming soon!
Let’s make this #BlackHistoryMonth a LOUD one ya’ll in honor of our past, our present, and our future ✊🏾
HAPPY 100 YEAR OF BLACK HISTORY MONTH GOOD PEOPLE! ♥️
Do you hear that?
Beyond the pain, the loss, the devastation, the bullshit
Do you hear them?
Beyond the lies, the mistreatment, the fight, the rage
Can you feel them?
Our ancestors’ are telling us, calling to us
Our creativity is ours to employ during these times
Because even in times of chaos
We’ve always created our own way out and through
And that is what we’ll continue to do.
Can you hear them?
Saying be encouraged.
Encouraging us to rely on our gifts, our imaginations, our intuition that can be found inside of us.
Reimagining for the sake of justice
in the name of love and freedom
We shall overcome was not just a song.
It was an assignment.
So let’s get to it,
Melissa ♥️
Writing more about the meaning behind my manifesto ‘This world does not move without Black creativity’ AND serving up some #BlackHistoryMonth exclusives ✨ONLY✨ via my newsletter @writeatthetable
Link in bio and 👉🏾 okaymk.substack.com
The music 🎶 you hear: New Pinnacle by Brandee Younger @harpista
“The biggest struggle in earning your freedom, is feeling like you deserve it. Something we feel like we ain’t worth putting in the work.”
I didn’t know my soul NEEDED to read and picture Harriet Tubman laughing and rapping and sleeping until I read Harriet Tubman: Live In Concert by @bobthedragqueen 📘✨🥹
👉🏾 It’s one of my favorite reads of the year, check out the rest in my bio 🫶🏾
Reading literally kept me SANE this year 🙏🏾😭 here’s my top 10 reads of the year, along with a mini introduction to @writeatthetable ✨🫶🏾
Thank you to every single author for your gift, to every friend who listened to me go on and on about reading, and @memphislibrary where I was able to read these for free!
👉🏾One of my top goals for 2026 is to add my own reads to someone’s TBR list. Link in bio ♥️
“I’ll push back on the debate between community care and self care only slightly by reminding you, dear reader, there is no either/or. There is no need to apply scarcity to the idea that Black women can only receive or request care one way.
We need both.
Both exist in harmony.”
BLOOM HOW YOU MUST 🌺 by @wherewomenbloom is an incredible guidebook and journal to self care and healing and I’m SO honored and humbled to be one of the 100+ Black women who are sharing their stories.
Thank you Tara for seeing and caring for US, the world needs this book right now. ♥️
The (affiliate) link to get your copy is in my bio, may it bless you as much as it’s already blessed me ✨
Temporary Post:
Memphis got a few piece to release:
1. Both shelves and the table in the first pic
2. The desk
3. The blue couch
All in great condition, just ready for something new. Name your price and come pick it up, hit my DMs or email: [email protected]
“A revolutionary woman can’t have no reactionary man.
If he’s not about liberation, if he’s not about struggle, if he ain’t about building a strong Black family, if he ain’t about building a strong Black nation, then he ain’t about nothing.”
- Assata Shakur 🙏🏾🕊️
thank you for being our warrior, one of our guiding lights, may you rest in perfect peace in the freedom that’s always been yours.
