Posts by Xica Media

Amy Mays endured repeated electricity shutoffs in her Arizona home, endangering her family with life-threatening temperatures and putting her business at risk. But Amy didn’t just survive, she innovated. Amy turned to solar power, going off-grid to power her home and business. In this way, Amy transformed crisis into opportunity — and she’s not the only one.

In 1999, my son Noah died from medical errors following a routine tonsillectomy. As my grief shifted, sometimes softening and sometimes intensifying, I found myself consumed not just by how he died, but by how I was treated as his mother. I was young, he was our first child, and I knew something was wrong. Yet despite being the one constant presence at his side, the person who spent every moment with him after surgery, I was the one least heard. My voice was silenced, and it caused Noah’s death. 

Roishetta Sibley Ozane is an environmental justice leader and Founder & CEO of The Vessel Project. She was born in Ruleville, Mississippi, a small town in the heart of the Delta. A…

Judy Williams, who goes by the name of Nana Adjua Serwaa, is a spiritual healer who teaches others how to heal from generational burdens and trauma using nature. “Adjoa” means…

Building Local Sustainable Economies–Catalyzing a New Democracy TCLP stands for bold Black leadership in advancing just transition, where frontline communities take the lead on shaping the solutions that center a…