InPower Healing Circle season one marks the 400th anniversary of the first Africans who arrived as captives. During episode six we center our discussion around the theme: 400 Years to Remember. It's time to heal y'all.

Opening Provocation

“Within the last ten years, African-American women have begun developing Womanist Theology and have labeled this assault upon the environment and upon the black women’s bodies as sin. In some womanist theology quarters, this sin has been named “defilement.” Different from the traditional theological understanding of sin as alienation or estrangement from God and humanity, the sin of defilement manifests itself in human attacks upon creations so as to ravish, violate, and destroy creation: to exploit and control the production and reproduction capacities of nature, to destroy the unity in nature’s placements, to obliterate the spirit of the created.” (Sin, Nature and Black Women's Bodies by Delores S. Williams)