"We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society." Angela Davis

Current Project: “The Land Alchemists”

Debuting this October at Taller Puertorriqueño, The Land Alchemists is an immersive performance ritual that is also a fundraiser for the Panzi Foundation of the Congo and Camp Breakers of Gaza, Palestine. It follows the story of Sunny, a laid off farm manager, remembering who they are in collective libration through dance and complicated ancestral veneration. With the help of their Shadow and Spirit, and the audience, they unearth the roots that bind the spiritual and the political. This project is made possible by an award from Independence Public Media Foundation, and the Open Kitchen Sculpture Garden Artist Residency.

Turn Up For Freedom: Notes for All the Tough Girls* Awakening to Their Collective Power published by Common Notions.

Turn Up For Freedom helps youth leaders hone their skills to build personal, emotional, and collective freedom. It centers youth leadership through principled positions, such as being a healer, a protector, a scholar-activist, a community organizer, and being radically joyful, in order to build personal emotional and collective freedom. Through memoir, story telling, and political education, E Morales-Williams grounds these principles in the material experiences of working-class youth and reflects on the possibilities and challenges in practicing them as a collective in under-resourced communities. 

“The City of Radical Love: A Philly Story of Oppression, Resistance, and Healing” published by Rutledge Press.

Philadelphia -- a city home to a centuries-long fallacy of freedom and a brutal reality of state-sanctioned trauma -- is also home to an important legacy of resistance and radical healing. As educators, healers, and activists committed to a praxis of Black feminism, the Black Radical Tradition and holistic spiritual practices of our enlightened ancestors, Sood and Morales-Williams seek to build on this layered history, while also locating our practice of yoga in a framework committed to radical healing and collective liberation.

Lecture for OISE at the University of Toronto

In this keynote lecture for Black educators enrolled in Issues in Curriculum and Pedagogy: Black Educator Identity and Practice, Dr. Morales-Williams draws from “Turn for for Freedom” to discuss the radical healing potential of youth leadership development through a liberatory framework that recognizes school as a historical site of harm for Black and working class youth. Listening to bell hook’s guidance that the role of teaching should work towards critical consciousness and healing, this talk and Q + A invites educators to meditate on the necessary questions to actualize that in the classroom for a liberated future.

The lecture and Q+A start at 1:25.

Black Palestinian Solidarity Video, “When I See Them, I See Us”

Over 60 leading Black and Palestinian artists and activists affirm Black-Palestinian solidarity. Featuring Ms. Lauryn Hill, Danny Glover, DAM, Omar Barghouti, Alice Walker, Angela Davis, Yousef Erakat, Annemarie Jacir, Boots Riley, Dr. Cornel West, and many others. Angela Davis on the project: “Mutual expressions of solidarity have helped to generate a vigorous political kinship linking black organizers, scholars, cultural workers and political prisoners in the U.S. with Palestinian activists, academics, political prisoners, and artists.” Organizations working in collaboration: The Dream Defenders, Black Youth Project 100, the DC Palestinian Film and Arts Festival, the Institute for Middle East Understanding, Jewish Voice for Peace, and the Arab Studies Institute-Quilting Point Productions. Scriptwriters are Kristian Bailey Davis, Remi Kanazi, and E Morales-Williams.