Truth Telling Project

08/25/2026

No month works harder to remind us of something than August.

1831: Nat Turner rises up against slavery. 1791: an uprising in Saint-Domingue helps end the transatlantic slave trade, the history the world marks every August 23. 1971: George Jackson is killed at San Quentin, and Black August is born. 2014: Michael Brown Jr. is killed in Ferguson, and the Truth Telling Project is born.

Same month. Same fight. A hundred and eighty-three years apart, and still not over.

We don't call these four anniversaries. We call them one argument, repeated until someone listens: the debt was never paid. Abolition ended a trade. It didn't end what that trade built.

The Truth Telling Project exists to make sure that argument doesn't get quiet. We tell the truth so reparative justice has somewhere to stand, because memory names the wound, but reparations are what actually close it.

This Black August, we're not just remembering. We're still making the case.

08/15/2026

Black August was not born as a celebration. It emerged in 1970 from within California’s prison system, where incarcerated organizers began honoring Jonathan Jackson, George Jackson, and other freedom fighters who lost their lives in the struggle for Black liberation. What began behind prison walls grew into a tradition of remembrance, political education, discipline, and commitment to freedom.

Black August is not another Black History Month. It asks something different of us: to study the freedom fighters whose stories were left out of our classrooms, to remember those who sacrificed their freedom and their lives, and to confront the continued imprisonment of people whose incarceration is tied to their political organizing and activism.

At the Truth Telling Project, this is deeply connected to our work.
Ferguson taught us that telling the truth can itself be an act of resistance—and that there can be no meaningful repair without honestly naming harm, especially the harms institutions and the state would rather minimize or forget.

Black August calls us into that same practice. It asks us to remember Nat Turner and Harriet Tubman, the Soledad Brothers and George Jackson, and those who remain imprisoned today—not as distant history, but as part of a long lineage of Black resistance that reaches from struggles against slavery and state violence to the streets of Ferguson.

This Black August, we invite you to study, listen, remember, and ask what liberation truly requires of us—not only in what we believe, but in what we are willing to do.
Because liberation has never been built on comfort.
It requires commitment.

07/10/2026

Sacred Reparative Season
There are voices today telling us to forget our history, dismantle diversity, erase hard truths, and accept injustice as the price of peace.
We refuse.
Sacred Reparative Season is our declaration that truth cannot be legislated away, memory cannot be censored, and justice cannot be postponed forever.
This season calls us to reject despair and embrace disciplined hope. Our ancestors survived slavery, lynching, Jim Crow, racial terror, and countless efforts to erase Black humanity not because the road was easy, but because they believed that freedom belonged to generations they would never meet.
We are those generations.
Now it is our turn.
We honor our ancestors not only with remembrance, but with action:

Organize with courage.
Heal our communities.
Tell the truth.
Build solidarity across movements.
Demand reparative justice that restores people, communities, and democracy itself.

The struggle for reparations is about far more than compensation. It is about repairing the moral fabric of a nation and creating a future where every child can inherit dignity instead of division.
The winds may be harsh, but history has always belonged to those who refused to surrender.
Our ancestors planted seeds they never lived to harvest. We are living in their faith. The question is: What will we plant for those yet to come?
The season is sacred.
The work is holy.
The time is now.

06/18/2026

June 19th is not a gift. It was never given. it was seized, survived, and sanctified by our ancestors.

Juneteenth reminds us that freedom delayed is freedom denied and that Black people have always known this truth, long before America was willing to speak it.

Today we honor more than a date on a calendar. We honor the resilience, brilliance, and unbreakable spirit of Black people across every generation, those who bled for freedom they never lived to see, and those who are building it right now with their bare hands.

At the Truth Telling Project, we believe that truth-telling is an act of liberation. You cannot repair what you refuse to name. You cannot heal what you continue to hide. And you cannot build a future on a foundation of lies.
So today we say plainly:

Freedom was not given. It was fought for. History was not preserved. It was protected by those who refused to let it be erased. Justice is not symbolic. It is concrete and it includes reparations.

In 2026, Black excellence is not a hashtag. It is a living, breathing force in our neighborhoods, our classrooms, our art, our technology, our organizing, and our leadership. We stand on the shoulders of ancestors who transformed struggle into strength and hope into action.

We are the continuation of that work.
The Truth Telling Project and Community of Praxis remain committed to building a world where Black liberation is not a aspiration, it is the infrastructure of our daily lives.
Freedom. Legacy. Liberation. Future.

🔗 Support the work: thetruthtellingproject.org

06/13/2026

Rapper Azealia Banks and rapper Cardi B shared sharply different reactions to the conviction of Karmelo Anthony, the 19-year-old found guilty of first-degree murder in the fatal April 2025 stabbing of Austin Metcalf. While Banks argued Anthony was not acting in self-defense, Cardi B condemned the verdict as “disgusting” and questioned the outcome, also drawing attention to the recent acquittal of Rick Chow in the fatal shooting of 14-year old Black teen Cyrus Carmack-Belton.

06/08/2026

Resources for teaching a people's history of the American Revolution.

04/24/2026

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02/10/2026

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THIS THURSDAY: Join us on February 12 at 7:30pm Eastern Time for a deep dive into the scriptural understandings behind the slogan “Jesus was an immigrant.” Hebrew Testament scholar and Egyptian Presbyterian pastor Rev. Dr. Safwat Marzouk will provide a teaching on the time that the Holy Family spent as migrants and refugees in Egypt, and the devotional traditions surrounding their sojourn. Dr. Marzouk will be joined in dialogue by Rev. Dr. Stephany Rose, a pastor and activist who has been deeply engaged in truth telling around immigration and race. We are pleased to have the Society of Biblical Literature and the Committee on Underrepresented Racial and Ethnic Minorities in the Profession (CUREMP) join us as co-sponsors for this important conversation. People of all faiths and perspectives are invited to join. Advance registration is required. Visit https://clbsj.org/events/2026/02/12/epiphany-in-exile/ for more information and to register.

02/06/2026

Interviewed on Al Jazeera today about ICE killing Alex Pretti and Renee Good, and made it a point to speak the names of all 9 people ICE has killed so far in 2026. Including Keith Porter, Parady La, Heber Sanchaz Domínguez, Victor Manuel Diaz, Luis Beltran Yanez-Cruz, Luis Gustavo Nunez Caceres, and Geraldo Lunas Campos.

We need unity of humanity against fascism and autocracy.

Will share the interview when it goes live.

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