Posts by Xica Media

Context: The Global Ethical Stocktake (GES): An Ethical Mutirão for Climate Action, was launched as part of the lead-up to COP30 (the 2025 United Nations Climate Change Conference), which took…

We were honored to anchor the Global Afro-Descendant Climate Justice Collaborative (GADCJC) at the 30th United Nations Conference of the Parties (COP30). Together, in joint purpose and action with scores of Afro-Descendant organizations and leaders, we fought on behalf of communities across Africa and the Diaspora at COP30—advocating for climate justice, Black Liberation, and our collective right to thrive.

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…