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Black Alder is a communications + narrative strategy firm 🧳
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“The Black church carries a prophetic obligation to name harm and demand remedy.”

Chelsea Fuller and Takara Pierce issue this call as the Christian Nationalist Right uses America’s 250th anniversary to promote a White, heterosexual, wealthy, male, and Christian nation—while recruiting Black and brown Christians to support a vision that excludes them.

That recruitment is expanding because Christian Nationalism excels at making a exclusionary political project feel like an expression of communal faith.

Take, for example, a single working mother who has repeatedly heard that having children outside marriage is sinful. She may see her financial hardship as punishment for a moral failure—not as the result of low wages or unaffordable housing.

That explanation can obscure the structural forces shaping her life. It also can influence her beliefs about poverty, reproductive healthcare, immigration, and political leadership.

Fuller and Pierce argue that progressive narratives often focus on Christian Nationalism’s most extreme White evangelical expressions while missing how the ideology moves through Black and brown faith communities.

Christian Nationalism cannot be defeated only as a political ideology. It must also be confronted at its foundational storytelling about faith, suffering, and who belongs in America’s future.

✍🏽: Chelsea Fuller (@chelcglenn) and Takara Pierce (@takarapierce)
🔗: In bio and comments

#WeTheCivic #ChristianNationalism #BlackFaith

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What an amazing evening filled with meaningful conversations about entrepreneurship and purpose. ✨ thank you @politicsandfshn & @throughline.studios

It was refreshing to hear the different perspectives we each brought to the conversation. So many gems were shared around business building and navigating challenges while creating with purpose to make impact beyond ourselves.

I am especially grateful for the opportunity to introduce more people to the world of luxury consignment and share how fashion, sustainability, and giving back can come together beautifully.

The heart behind @archive__vault is giving beautiful luxury pieces a new story while creating opportunities to give back and make an impact in our community. 🤎

Grateful to have been part of such an inspiring panel and already looking forward to the next one! @chelcglenn 🤞🏽

#ArchiveVault #Entrepreneurship #LuxuryConsignment #WomenInBusiness #GivingBack PurposeDriven LuxuryWithPurpose

📷: @weareclairvoyance

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We’re so grateful for a successful launch on Martha’s Vineyard. Many thanks to folks who joined us at @indiarosecollective for our Lead with Impact event in partnership with @12pmstudios. Our sponsors @blckaldr and @archive__vault helped to curate an amazing vibe. Follow @throughline.studios for more!

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When @joyannreid and her producers say your work is a palate cleanser, you know you’re doing good, positive work 🙂‍↕️

@liberationventures

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We are excited to join this incredibly dynamic panel for this year’s NABJ National Convention!

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We’re so excited to kick off @throughline.studios in partnership with @12pmstudios! Our Lead with Impact panel is sponsored by @archive__vault + @blckaldr and will feature brilliant Black women leaders:

✨ @indiarosehq
✨ @j3jeannie
✨ @jeneenaylor
✨ @takara.mov
✨ @politicsandfshn — moderator

We’ll see you in Martha’s Vineyard at @indiarosecollective for a dynamic evening! No worries if you missed your spot this time — we’re cooking up more events in NYC and DC.

#marthasvineyardlife

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To say I’m grateful and proud is an understatement. Most businesses don’t make it through their third year. We’ve made it FIVE without compromising our values or integrity, without being in debt and without losing sight of the ultimate goal. We managed to build and grow each year in ways we didn’t even plan for. So much of our success at @blckaldr is due to the unmatched brilliance, rigor, kindness, grace and vision of @takara.mov. For two years she took on the role of senior strategist so I could take time away to support M4BL. Thank you so much to our more than 100 clients, to @kevmp24 our partner in this work, to our friends, family and comrades for standing by us and praying over us. Here’s to the next chapter.

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Anniversary shoot loading…it’s the best one yet. February 27 😎

Wearing a little vintage @givenchy and @ralphlauren and photos as always by @jenbrown_photography

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When you hit five years in biz, subtle is not an option 🔥 @blckaldr

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@newsone_official covered our new report, The Cost of the Story. And as our co founder and co executive director, Takara, said, our call for care is not about comfort. It is not about making sure journalists feel cozy. It is about survival. It is about ensuring that this work is sustainable enough, ethical enough and protected enough for journalists to keep doing what democracy requires of them.

A press that is burned out and unsupported cannot stand as a bulwark against authoritarianism. A press that is cared for can.

We are not only losing journalists to layoffs or newsroom consolidation. We are also losing them because they are exhausted, burned out and carrying chronic stress shaped by repeated exposure to trauma. Our data shows this clearly.

The emotional and psychological toll is pushing people out of the field long before any official cuts reach them.

That is why we are excited to share that we are taking the findings of this report and building a full curriculum and certification for reporters, newsroom leadership, journalism schools, communicators and community media makers.

The goal is to strengthen the entire ecosystem by preparing people to do this work in a way that is grounded, sustainable and aligned with the ethical duty the press holds in a moment where democracy depends on it.

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What they won’t do for us, we do for each other.

Join us for a FREE spaghetti dinner G’s Shepard Cafe November 7 from 6-8pm. Come eat and learn more about the mutual aid resources available across Columbus.

All are welcome. Spread the word!

#spaghettidinner #columbus #columbusohio

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What October taught us about PR (so you don’t learn the hard way). 📌
1. Collaborations and conversations
2. The human side of covering difficult stories
3. Protecting your peace and time
👉 Which hit you? Tag a founder.

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