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“Who Is the Black Woman? She is a college graduate. A drop-out. A student. A wife. A divorcée. A mother. A lover. A child of the ghetto. A product of the bourgeoisie. A professional writer. A person who never dreamed of publication. A solitary individual. A member of the Movement. A gentle humanist. A violent revolutionary. She is angry and tender, loving and hating. She is all these things—and more.” — Toni Cade Bambara, The Black Woman (1970) WHAT’S THE PLAN WEEKEND RECAP // SISTERHOOD IS A VERB >> April 10, 2026 🔷🔶🔷🔶 A meaningful return for Muse 360 to hold this gathering at our founder Sharayna Ashanti Christmas’ alma mater, Morgan State University @morganstateu Returning matters, especially when it creates space for the next generation to gather across Baltimore in study, political reflection, and community. Thank you to Jessica Marie Johnson, @innerpeace33 , and @raynqueen for guiding the room, and to every student who showed up ready to think collectively and build across generations.

“Revolution begins with the self, in the self. The individual, the basic revolutionary unit, must be purged of poison and lies that assault the ego and threaten the heart.” — Toni Cade Bambara , On The Issue of Roles, 1970 // The Black Woman: An Anthology WHAT’S THE PLAN WEEKEND RECAP // SISTERHOOD IS A VERB: INTERGENERATIONAL DIALOGUE As we continue reflecting on the opening of the Toni Cade Bambara weekend, we’re thinking about what it means to use the political, cultural, and relational tools she left behind to study, organize, and remain accountable to one another. On Friday, 4/10 at Morgan State University, the next generation of cultural workers gathered from across Baltimore gathered for Sisterhood is a Verb: Intergenerational Dialogue presented in partnership with [Life x Code] @life_x_code and [ADA Global Studies @africandiasporaalliance Participants engaged excerpts from “On the Issue of Roles” by Bambara, reflected on the question “How did you come by your name?”, and explored roles for liberation rather than leadership along with dialogue and empathetic listening interview exercises. Young people spoke openly about campus life, organizing, institutional pressure, and what it means to locate yourself within movement work while remaining connected to community and self-definition. Thank you to Dr. Jessica Marie Johnson, @innerpeace33 , and @raynqueen for guiding the room, and to every student who showed up ready to think collectively and build across generations.

Thank You @muse.360 for inviting us to partner with you on a powerful weekend honoring the life of Toni Cade Bambara. It was truly an HONOR! This first iteration of our Freedom School is only the beginning and just a glimpse of what’s possible when we intentionally pour into our youth. From conversations on community, culture, and care… to moments of joy, pride, and connection! This is the kind of space we’re committed to continue building. May the spirit of Toni Cade Bambara guide us as we develop our workshops into something bigger, deeper, and more consistent for our children and our communities! We look forward to growing with you! 🌍✨

Stewarding our own land, growing our own food, educating our own youth... this is the source of real power and dignity. //Farming While Black by Leah Penniman At Muse 360, we understand that what we build through the soil extends beyond the garden. Harvesting becomes a way to support not just our bodies, but our thinking, our relationships, and how we show up for one another across generations. Through this work, Saj Dillard @sajthefarmer of Sajeeda Urban Farms has helped make these practices real teaching, preserving, and sharing knowledge that connects land, care, and community. Join us at the 360 House Garden for Reclaiming Soil: Urban Gardening & Community Sovereignty >> 🔴 a free, hands-on workshop for families (ages 5+). ⚫️ Saturday, April 25 10 AM - 2 PM 🟢360 House Garden >> Register for address Youth and families will learn how to grow, harvest, and sustain their own food, while building tools they can carry back into their everyday lives. We extend gratitude for the ability and privilege to gather➰ #muse360 #landstewardship #earthday

“Increasingly, the issue is salvation…I want to create works that save our lives.” - Toni Cade Bambara April 10–11, Muse 360 and partners presented a historic, citywide weekend honoring the life, work, and political imagination of Toni Cade Bambara through dialogue, film, study, and collective practice. Each offering—across Morgan State University, 360 House, Blue Light Junction, and more—reached capacity! Our community showed up with love and a willingness to be fully present. Thank you to our partners, collaborators, facilitators, and internal team who carried this weekend from start to finish. The level of care, coordination, and commitment it took to hold these spaces was an act of love. Your labor, intention, and care made this offering possible. TCB’s charge continues through the community we built, the love we harvested, and the practices we nurtured, all in the name of cultural work.

Emotionally, still here. 🌱@muse.360

“When we restore the land, we restore ourselves.” — bell hooks Land sovereignty is a necessary structure to provide access, and control over the systems that determine how we live, eat, and relate to each other. Join us at the 360 House garden for a free hands-on workshop focused on gardening, harvesting, and community food systems as practice—not theory. Led by Saj Dillard—founder, farmer, and beekeeper of Sajeeda Urban Farm, this session will cover the basics of growing and sustaining food while thinking through land, access, and shared resources in real time. Youth and families will leave with practical tools to continue the work in their own spaces. This is a space for learning, doing, and reorganizing how we relate to land and nourishment at a local level. All ages 5+ welcome. EVENT DETAILS: Saturday, April 25 10 AM – 2 PM 360 House (RSVP for address) Link in bio!

TCB Weekend has been everything and more! Thank you to all my beautiful Black Baltimore revolutionary babes that came out yesterday to make zines in tribute to Toni Cade Bambara’s cultural work and legacy that fuels and affirms us everyday day! I don’t play when it comes to facilitating zine making workshops that center Black feminist joy, care and culture work, I know the spirit of Toni Cade Bambara was in the room with us. Toni’s words: “As a culture worker who belongs to an oppressed people my job is to make revolution irresistible.” We brought her magic to life through our own zine manifestations! The revolutionary reflection is love. What was crafted in two hours will go down in the archives. Thank you to @muse360 for another beautiful collab thank you to @blue.lightjunction for letting us play and zine in your space. I left so full. Until next time.

And then there was just us and Mama Toni. What a glorious weekend. Grateful.

"We have also been developers of vision, that vision that has kept us keeping on during those very brutalizing times. "The notion that we know there is a better way, we know that old people do not have to eat dog food, we know that there ought to be more options for our brothers than the armed services, or prison, or the street, we know there has to be more options for our sisters than welfare or the street, a better way, another way to be in the universe, a more human and responsible way, that vision of that possibility, that's very much kept alive by Black women, the community of women." -Toni Cade Bambara lecture, "Black Women as a Political Force," 1974 Faces and moments from Toni Cade Bambara Weekend, day two

"The role of the artist is to make the revolution irresistible." Toni Cade Bambara Obsessed with these ladies. Faces from day one of Toni Cade Bambara weekend, "Sisterhood is a Verb" 🌱✨️

TCB WEEKEND // TCB - THE TONI CADE BAMBARA SCHOOL OF ORGANIZING // BALTIMORE PREMIERE AT MDFF // 20% OFF Muse 360 is proud to partner with @mdffparkway to bring this powerful documentary to Baltimore TOMORROW, April 11! To increase accessibility to this amazing work, we are offering 20% OFF tickets! Discount code >> Muse360twenty LINK TO PURCHASE TICKETS IN OUR BIO! The screening will be followed by a conversation with director Louis Massiah and writer and curator Angela Carroll, moderated by Muse 360 founder and cultural worker Sharayna Ashanti Christmas. EVENT DETAILS: Saturday, April 11 6:30 PM Parkway Theatre Directed by Louis Massiah & Monica Henriquez, TCB – The Toni Cade Bambara School of Organizing is a biography of writer, filmmaker, and cultural worker Toni Cade Bambara, told through lessons drawn from her life and carried by those she impacted. Her humor, discipline, and political imagination called generations into community-rooted work, leaving behind a living legacy of cultural workers and dreamers. This film offers a rare and intimate opportunity to witness her voice, her presence, and the communities shaped by her care. #tonicadebambara #tcbdoc