Founder's Corner Blog December

Rising on the Wings of Faith: How Black Women Soar Above Every Storm

2025 has been one of the toughest years experienced in the past four decades. Steps

toward progress and racial justice have virtually evaporated. Our current state and

status could create doubt whether we can keep ourselves and families going. We must

allow doubt or fear steal our peace. There's a strength that runs through us – passed

down from mothers and grandmothers, from ancestors who survived the unspeakable

and still found reason to sing. It's not just resilience. It's something deeper. It's faith in

the Most High that has carried Black women through every storm history has thrown at

us.

Our ancestors understood something profound: when the world tries to break you, faith

becomes your foundation. When they were shackled, they prayed. When they were

silenced, they hummed hymns of freedom. When they were told they were less than,

they knew – deep in their spirits – that they were fearfully and wonderfully made.

That same faith lives in us.

It's the faith that whispered to Harriet Tubman in the darkness, guiding her and

hundreds to freedom. It's what sustained Fannie Lou Hamer as she declared she was

"sick and tired of being sick and tired" – yet never stopped fighting. It's what lifted Maya

Angelou to proclaim, "Still, I rise."

And it's what sustains us now – Black women navigating a world that still

underestimates us, dismisses our pain, and questions our worth. But we know better.

We've always known better.

Because our faith isn't passive – it’s power.

In Sisterhood, Velveta