Emma Jordan-Simpson
@revemmaj.bsky.social
Communing with ancestors. Leading with love. Seminary President • Baptist Pastor • I fall down Black history, Black hope, and Black resistance rabbit holes.
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❤️🔺❤️ • #Fisk • Walking with Harriet
Personal account
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A walk through my neighborhood a few days ago and ran into an eternal truth in a bit of an unlikely place: “Presidents are temporary. Wu-Tang is forever.”
October 18, 2025 at 7:05 PM
A walk through my neighborhood a few days ago and ran into an eternal truth in a bit of an unlikely place: “Presidents are temporary. Wu-Tang is forever.”
I know there’s a whole world on fire out there. It’s still a good time for me to tell you - we don’t do blue jolly ranchers around here. Don’t even have support groups for folks kicking the habit. As per Harriet Tubman’s email, we’re just leaving you behind.
August 13, 2025 at 3:31 PM
I know there’s a whole world on fire out there. It’s still a good time for me to tell you - we don’t do blue jolly ranchers around here. Don’t even have support groups for folks kicking the habit. As per Harriet Tubman’s email, we’re just leaving you behind.
Spent some time with my college roomie and Soror last week. A prayer of gratitude before I go to sleep.
For strength showing up in softness. For joy defying despair. Defying! For the sacred friendship of Black women - laughing through grief, dreaming, still…
I give God thanks.
For strength showing up in softness. For joy defying despair. Defying! For the sacred friendship of Black women - laughing through grief, dreaming, still…
I give God thanks.
August 12, 2025 at 6:35 AM
Spent some time with my college roomie and Soror last week. A prayer of gratitude before I go to sleep.
For strength showing up in softness. For joy defying despair. Defying! For the sacred friendship of Black women - laughing through grief, dreaming, still…
I give God thanks.
For strength showing up in softness. For joy defying despair. Defying! For the sacred friendship of Black women - laughing through grief, dreaming, still…
I give God thanks.
I can’t delete names from my address book and here’s why: GRIEF SUCKS. My congregation lost so many people to COVID in the first year of the pandemic. Enough to fill two sections of the sanctuary’s balcony. Their voices, stories, laughter, love….
July 29, 2025 at 4:05 AM
I can’t delete names from my address book and here’s why: GRIEF SUCKS. My congregation lost so many people to COVID in the first year of the pandemic. Enough to fill two sections of the sanctuary’s balcony. Their voices, stories, laughter, love….
Again I say….
Butter and sugar belong on grits….
Butter and sugar belong on grits….
July 15, 2025 at 3:19 AM
Again I say….
Butter and sugar belong on grits….
Butter and sugar belong on grits….
Howard Thurman on Jesus: " Wherever the Spirit appears, the oppressed gather fresh courage; for Jesus announced the good news that fear, hypocrisy and hatred...need have no dominion over them." (Jesus & The Disinherited)
December 28, 2024 at 1:32 PM
Howard Thurman on Jesus: " Wherever the Spirit appears, the oppressed gather fresh courage; for Jesus announced the good news that fear, hypocrisy and hatred...need have no dominion over them." (Jesus & The Disinherited)
Also on this day, December 24, 1854 - Harriet Tubman sent a message to her bothers that the good old ship of Zion was on the way….and she snuck in and led them to freedom. (BTW I imagine her gearing her brothers were to be sold south, saying - I think TF NOT!)
(Wesley Wofford, sculpture)
(Wesley Wofford, sculpture)
December 24, 2024 at 5:55 PM
Also on this day, December 24, 1854 - Harriet Tubman sent a message to her bothers that the good old ship of Zion was on the way….and she snuck in and led them to freedom. (BTW I imagine her gearing her brothers were to be sold south, saying - I think TF NOT!)
(Wesley Wofford, sculpture)
(Wesley Wofford, sculpture)
Born this day December 24, 1865 in Pulaski, Tennessee - the Ku Klux Klan - good christian men devoted to white supremacy and ending reconstruction in the South.
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December 24, 2024 at 4:53 PM
Born this day December 24, 1865 in Pulaski, Tennessee - the Ku Klux Klan - good christian men devoted to white supremacy and ending reconstruction in the South.
calendar.eji.org/racial-injus...
calendar.eji.org/racial-injus...
Turn folk against each other using focus-grouped emotional/wedge issues. The border! The babies! The DEI! Buy the media. The right fights the left. The middle class blames the poor. These guys walk off with the people’s safe, the people’s democracy, and the children’s future./1
December 22, 2024 at 11:33 PM
Turn folk against each other using focus-grouped emotional/wedge issues. The border! The babies! The DEI! Buy the media. The right fights the left. The middle class blames the poor. These guys walk off with the people’s safe, the people’s democracy, and the children’s future./1
Our last public presentation of Handel’s MESSIAH was in 2019. The community came out in force tonight for its return. A woman said - “we needed this! It’s life-giving.” I keep watching this intermission video because - it’s nothing. And everything. Making friends. Laughter. Being human. Together.
December 16, 2024 at 3:06 AM
Our last public presentation of Handel’s MESSIAH was in 2019. The community came out in force tonight for its return. A woman said - “we needed this! It’s life-giving.” I keep watching this intermission video because - it’s nothing. And everything. Making friends. Laughter. Being human. Together.
Her sons are steadfast, her daughters true. Nikki Giovanni, forever on the altar.
#FiskForever
#GoldanBlue
#Blackwomen
#FiskForever
#GoldanBlue
#Blackwomen
December 10, 2024 at 3:54 AM
Her sons are steadfast, her daughters true. Nikki Giovanni, forever on the altar.
#FiskForever
#GoldanBlue
#Blackwomen
#FiskForever
#GoldanBlue
#Blackwomen
The Equal Justice Initiative calendar notes: “On this day in history - December 7, 1874
Violent White Mob Massacres Black Citizens at Political Meeting in Mississippi 🧵/1
Violent White Mob Massacres Black Citizens at Political Meeting in Mississippi 🧵/1
December 7, 2024 at 5:12 PM
The Equal Justice Initiative calendar notes: “On this day in history - December 7, 1874
Violent White Mob Massacres Black Citizens at Political Meeting in Mississippi 🧵/1
Violent White Mob Massacres Black Citizens at Political Meeting in Mississippi 🧵/1
Third cup this morning. Peace is being able to drink my coffee…in peace.
November 30, 2024 at 2:21 PM
Third cup this morning. Peace is being able to drink my coffee…in peace.
It’s this one for me - all year…
November 28, 2024 at 2:14 PM
It’s this one for me - all year…
That’s it. That’s the post.
I’m still standing.
I’m still standing.
November 25, 2024 at 9:44 PM
That’s it. That’s the post.
I’m still standing.
I’m still standing.
Black women asked folk to go on record back in 1919; and folk keep revealing where they stand with respect to protecting the voices, bodies, and rights of all persons.
Colored Women Seek Complete Equality
Image: Brooklyn Daily Eagle
Monday, May 26, 1919
Colored Women Seek Complete Equality
Image: Brooklyn Daily Eagle
Monday, May 26, 1919
November 20, 2024 at 5:28 PM
Black women asked folk to go on record back in 1919; and folk keep revealing where they stand with respect to protecting the voices, bodies, and rights of all persons.
Colored Women Seek Complete Equality
Image: Brooklyn Daily Eagle
Monday, May 26, 1919
Colored Women Seek Complete Equality
Image: Brooklyn Daily Eagle
Monday, May 26, 1919
Just one of the many, many reasons you are witnessing Black women tapping out. It’s been 1850 in America for Black people for a billion years. And it’s been 1918 in America for Black women since emancipation.
#Blackwomen
#Blacksky
#Blackwomen
#Blacksky
November 19, 2024 at 3:21 PM
Just one of the many, many reasons you are witnessing Black women tapping out. It’s been 1850 in America for Black people for a billion years. And it’s been 1918 in America for Black women since emancipation.
#Blackwomen
#Blacksky
#Blackwomen
#Blacksky
Children of Soprano Maggie Porter, original Fisk Jubilee Singer - Daniel, Singleton and Imogene Cole. Their father is tenor Daniel Cole.
(Photographed at Millard Studio in Detroit, MI. Detroit Public Library Digi Col.)
(Photographed at Millard Studio in Detroit, MI. Detroit Public Library Digi Col.)
November 19, 2024 at 12:36 PM
Children of Soprano Maggie Porter, original Fisk Jubilee Singer - Daniel, Singleton and Imogene Cole. Their father is tenor Daniel Cole.
(Photographed at Millard Studio in Detroit, MI. Detroit Public Library Digi Col.)
(Photographed at Millard Studio in Detroit, MI. Detroit Public Library Digi Col.)
Boys playing leap frog near the Frederick Douglass housing project. Gordon Parks, ca 1942
November 15, 2024 at 10:50 PM
Boys playing leap frog near the Frederick Douglass housing project. Gordon Parks, ca 1942
I love black and white photographs. Saw these at the Library of Congress as a part of their “Joy and Sorrow” theme. And I’m only gonna post the joy because reasons….
(Group of African American children playing (ca 1915 -1923) Harris & Ewing, photographer)/1
www.loc.gov
(Group of African American children playing (ca 1915 -1923) Harris & Ewing, photographer)/1
www.loc.gov
November 15, 2024 at 10:50 PM
I love black and white photographs. Saw these at the Library of Congress as a part of their “Joy and Sorrow” theme. And I’m only gonna post the joy because reasons….
(Group of African American children playing (ca 1915 -1923) Harris & Ewing, photographer)/1
www.loc.gov
(Group of African American children playing (ca 1915 -1923) Harris & Ewing, photographer)/1
www.loc.gov
The season of short days and long nights….but!
November 25, 2023 at 5:59 PM
The season of short days and long nights….but!