The Work of Freedom

Too many of our young people don’t know anything about our history. Some think it began in slavery. That kind of forgetting is dangerous. It cuts us off from the long line of builders, dreamers, and fighters who came before us.

I started The Work of Freedom and Daily Garvey Wisdom as my answer to that forgetting. I wanted to use story to pass on what Marcus Garvey taught about the mind, the self, and the power of belief. Story has always been how our people carried truth. Elder Grace, one of the characters in the series, grew out of that impulse. She reminds me of the aunties I have known: fierce, unbending Black women who tell you the truth without softening it. Through her, I honor the elders who kept the fire lit when everything around them tried to dim it.

Lately, I have seen how fragile our platforms can be. Some of my videos have been shadow-banned on TikTok, the same space that once gave me the courage to start this journey. It might seem like a small thing, but it fits a familiar pattern: the quiet erasure of Black voices while content that celebrates greed, cruelty, or fascism keeps spreading. That imbalance says a lot about who gets heard and who does not.

So, I have begun posting here, on new ground, to keep the stories alive. The Work of Freedom is about the ongoing fight to be seen, to speak, and to remember. Every post is a small act of resistance, a way of saying we were here, we are here, and we are not done telling our story.

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