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Day 3 of #28LoveLettersToBlackWomen: Sweet Honey In The Rock

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This Black History Month, I’m sharing art, songs, movies, and other creative expressions from and about Black women that spark joy for me.  Because Black women are often not remembered for their contributions, I thought this would be one way to give flowers to those who influenced me.

Photo of Sweet Honey In the Rock by Amy Horowitz, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons
Photo of Sweet Honey In the Rock by Amy Horowitz, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons

For Day 3, I thought I’d share this song by Sweet Honey in The Rock.  




Sweet Honey in The Rock is an all-Black-woman acapella group founded in 1973. The name of the group embodies abundance to me.  It comes from Psalms 81:16, which describes of a land so rich, that when the rocks were cracked open, honey flowed out of them.  Bernice Johnson Reagon, who founded the group, said when the group’s voices came together for the first time, it sounded like honey pouring from a rock, so the name was born.  


The song Would You Harbor Me is haunting and feels incredibly timely in a world where governments hunt the people those same governments are supposed to protect. 


It reminds me that even in the darkest times, we have each other. 


If we want to make it to the light, we’ll need to protect each other.  Like the people who ushered the formerly enslaved to freedom on The Underground Railroad, we can act collectively, in big and small ways, to make it through the dark together. 


Thank you to the ladies of Sweet Honey In The Rock for this call to remember that we have each other. 


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