There Is Balm In Gilead (Full Blog Coming Soon)

The Sun moved their shadows across strange places, where they laid down their souls in hard soils, and their tears flowed in rivers, creating winded sounds that awakened spaces healed through Balms of Gileads. -- Dr. Johnnie C. Larrie (Esq.,)

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Despite existing in places of economic despair, Black communities seed resiliency that remains a mystery to those on the outside. Resiliency is the evidence and stuff of Black communities. It rises from places of systemic-induced violence and thrives against the drip-drip-drip of resources controlled by others outside of these same communities.

East Winston understands. It has resided in strangely beautiful places of economic despair. This community carries the history of Black souls laid in hard soils. Its long colorful cries are coded spaces created from a collective of physicians cultivating community resilience through soiled healing. That is some serious balm.

And, if anyone ask of East Winston, "Is there Balm in Gilead?" it must respond in plural: "Yes, there are Balms in Gileads." Each East Winston community member, each grass-rooted organization sitting in and serving East Winston, each school, business, and home, comprises a collective of Balms in Gileads.