Our Lives Matter

Abstract

The author writes a very personal and powerful reflection on her struggles under the harmful messages that she internalized growing up as an African American in an un-gentrified urban American context, a place, she says, like Nazareth. The liberation and empowerment that came to her through the good news of the incarnate God choosing a life like hers, of one on the margins, in order to save "those discarded and constrained to such circumstances" has transformed her life into one of witness and service.