Change Goin’ Come

After Winter Must Come Spring

But Change Goin’ Come

We want change. I think that is a very common feeling right now. But the change each of us wants individually does not always equal the change needed collectively—or even globally.

The slow burn of the Epstein files is letting the rest of us know that there really was a worldwide conspiracy of exploitation, and that our current leadership was right at the center of it—a connoisseur of the corruption. Young Black girls were only “saved” by the very racism that usually endangers them. The group so desperate to protect this international ring of evil benefited from the frustrations so many of us feel in our daily lives. Whether it be monetary policy or law enforcement, their access to the highest levels kept them untouchable for decades.

But change goin’ come.

Whether we like it or not, whether we wish for it or not, things can never stay as they are. White men could never stay in absolute power forever, and there are some people terrified by that thought.

We are seeing this fear play out in real-time. Just yesterday, a federal judge had to step in and order the Trump administration to restore an exhibit about the enslaved people at George Washington’s Philadelphia home—an exhibit the administration ripped down on Presidents’ Day under the guise of “restoring sanity” to history. The judge literally quoted Orwell’s 1984, comparing this whitewashing to the “Ministry of Truth.” They are trying to legislate memory because they are terrified of the reality.

TikTok has been resurfacing videos of Louis Farrakhan speaking to the heart of this fear. He told an audience that the reason white people are so enraged when we speak confidently about racism is that they are aware, on some level, of the cruelty and evil allowed to flourish for their benefit. That awareness creates a deep-seated fear: that if Black people ever had the same kind of power, we would behave the same way they did.

That fear has not just skewed race relations in this country; it has completely annihilated compassion in entire sectors of the population.

But change goin’ come.

It is interesting being a student of history at a time like this, in a place like this. I know that so much of what I am seeing is a reflection of where we have been and what we have yet to deal with. But I also know that we are perfectly capable of designing something new.

We are at what Forbes is calling a massive “inflection point” for the nonprofit and social sectors in 2026. The safety nets are failing, the demand is rising, and the old ways of funding and operating are crumbling. We have the opportunity to innovate a new way of being, yet too many of us refuse because we are too settled in the comforts—few though they may be—that we have been afforded.

But change goin’ come.

Whether we want it or not. Whether we hope for it or not. Change will come.

After the winter of economic recession. After the winter of legislation that fails the safety of students in schools. After the winter of lying, disgusting, perverted, dishonorable leaders. After the winter of competing cultural messages designed to confuse and detract from holding anyone accountable. After the winter of death and destruction at the hands of the American government in pursuit of American capitalism…

After winter must come spring.

Will you look back at this season of your life as rejuvenation for the rest ahead, or another season in a long cycle of frustration?

Your choice.

As for me, I am choosing to build.

Quite by accident, I launched a social media campaign showcasing the history of Black women’s clubs for Black History Month —reminding us all that these women were the original architects of community care. I am training my body alongside my mind, logging miles in Tilden Park for my upcoming half-marathon, and preparing my spirit for the Myth & Marrow performances coming this summer. I am launching the AFROXpress Substack to give these thoughts a permanent home and expanding my team because the vision is growing larger than one person can hold.

I am not waiting for the weather to break. I am building the shelter, the stage, and the stamina for what comes next. And you?

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