SpiritHouse Inc.

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SpiritHouse Inc.

Inspiring, connecting, strengthening communities.

Since 1999, SpiritHouse Inc, a Durham, North Carolina based cultural arts and organizing organization, has worked with low-wealth families and community members to uncover and uproot the systemic barriers that prevent us from gaining the resources, leverage and capacity for long-term self-sufficiency. We pursue our mission and vision purposefully and with compassion developing programs that:

- Cr

eate community driven strategies designed to address & improve conditions in our lives.

- Tell culturally relevant stories of underrepresented, everyday folk.

- Encourage increased civic engagement by people of color, women and teens for primary leadership roles within our communities.

- Connect community members with community partners who can help us all meet our needs.

06/16/2026

Joy is not a luxury. It's resistance. ✨

Joy is a sanctuary where our community gets to celebrate, laugh, dance, and breathe without justification. It's the ancient practices our ancestors passed down and the remixed versions we're creating today. It's the potlucks, the cookouts, the cypher, the Sunday dinners that keep us whole.

Revolutionary's Mixtape centers on joy because joy is how we survive. Joy is how we heal. Joy is how we remind ourselves what we're fighting for.

Come experience it with us. Join the Fam.

06/01/2026

I am the woman
with the blessed
dark skin
I am the woman
with teeth repaired
I am the woman
with the healing eye
the ear that hears.

I am the woman: Dark,
repaired, healed
Listening to you.

I would give
to the human race
only hope.

-

This is a part of "Remember me?" by Alice Walker.

And we'll never forget. ✊🏿

05/31/2026

(The) Revolutionary's Mixtape isn't just a theme. It's a three-part strategy. 🎵

Transformative Justice: We're sculpting new accountability practices that transform oppressive systems from the inside out. We don't wait for the system to save us.

Joy & Cultural Practices: Joy is resistance. We create sanctuaries where our community can celebrate, explore ancestral technologies, and remix them for today.

Civic Engagement: They tried to erase our history. We're fighting back by arming our community with real civic knowledge and power.

This is (The) Revolutionary's Mixtape.

TheRevolutionarysMixtape

05/18/2026

Our grandmothers passed down wisdom at kitchen tables. Our elders taught us through stories, not textbooks. We learned organizing through call-and-response, not PowerPoints. That's Black Southern culture. That's how revolutions are born.

At SpiritHouse South, we honor that tradition. Every program we run roots back to the kitchen table conversations that change the world.

05/15/2026

Organizing is love in action. ✊🏿

Community showing up for community is how we've survived for 27 years, and it's how we'll keep building. Want to be part of the work? We need you. Whether you've got two hours a week or two days a month, there's a place for you here.

Click the link in the bio to sign up to be a Volunteer.

05/14/2026

The tenacity and brilliance of Durham's way makers laid the groundwork for building banks, insurance companies, theaters, and businesses that thrived in our community when the rest of the country said they couldn't.

They understood what we still know today: local economic power is survival, and community wealth should be mutual.

05/12/2026

New to Durham? Let us tell you about the culture that built this city. 🏙️

This isn't just a place. It's a legacy. Black brilliance made Durham what it is today.
We're still here. Still building. Still creating. And we want you to know the real story, not the gentrified version.

Welcome home, fam.

05/11/2026

Know your history. 🏛️

The Hayti District was once a thriving community, home to churches, art, businesses, and schools. All built by us, for us.

Before urban renewal tore it down, Hayti was proof that Black economic power wasn't a dream. It was real.

05/08/2026

Before we could write it down, we spoke it. Our words have been tools for survival, resistance, and liberation.

This is Jaki Shelton Green, North Carolina's Poet Laureate, Durham's own, reminding us that no matter what they tried to take, they could not steal our light.

Drop your favorite line of poetry in the comments. 📖

04/17/2026

This is Paul Newman, our Harm Free Zone Program Manager, and he's got something to tell you.

Harm Free Zone is a 12-week transformative justice training that gives you real tools for community accountability, addressing harm at its roots, and creating positive change in our neighborhoods. This isn't theory. This is practice.

Are you ready? Visit the link in our bio to apply! Questions? Reach out at [email protected] ✊

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Durham, NC
27715

Website

https://linktr.ee/spirithousesouth

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