TOGETHER WE RISE A Poetry Collection for Black Women: SISTERHOOD STRENGTH HEALING PURPOSE FREEDOM

TOGETHER WE RISE A Poetry Collection for Black Women What does it mean to be a Black woman-and to love every beautiful, complicated, powerful part of that truth?Together We Rise answers that question with poetry that does not simply speak about Black women. It speaks to us.To our brown skin. To our coils and curls. To our faith. To our strength. To the places where we are tired of being strong. To the woman beneath everything the world thinks it already knows about us.With short, profound poems rooted in culture, womanhood, sisterhood, and faith, Reverend Dr. Chantain M. Lennon, ThD, explores the experiences that can make Black women smile, remember, question, heal, and see themselves differently.Who decided what beautiful looks like? Who decided our hair wasn't professional? Why should one shade of brown be celebrated above another? Who pours into the woman who is always pouring into everyone else? And what happens when Black women stop competing and begin reaching for one another?These are the conversations within Together We Rise.Through memorable pieces such as The Sun Has Shone Upon Me in the Deep of My Melanin, Water Me, for I Am the Earth, My Hair Is Professional, There Is More to Me Than My Brown Skin, The CEO of My Soul, and When the Strong Black Woman Needs Somewhere to Lay Her Head, this collection gives language to experiences that often live quietly inside Black women.And beneath it all is faith.Each poem is paired with KJV Scripture, a positive affirmation, and a signature Affirm & Align Reflection for My Sisters, inviting the reader to do more than turn the page. She is invited to see herself, affirm herself, examine herself, and align herself with the truth of who God created her to be.This book does not ask every Black woman to have the same story.It celebrates the fact that we don't.Different shades. Different textures. Different lives. Different journeys.Yet there is something powerful that happens when one sister looks at another and says: "I see you. I celebrate you. And there is room for both of us to rise."Together We Rise is Black womanhood written from the inside-with faith at its foundation and sisterhood at its heart. Written by REVEREND DR. CHANTAIN M. LENNON, ThD Founder & Visionary In His Heart Christian Book Ministries Founder Affirm & Align Women's Ministries ONE HEART - MANY SHADES - ONE SISTERHOOD Together, We Rise.