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brightblackcandle A Durham-based company honoring the brilliance of Blackness through scent.

Here’s something real and meaningful and long lasting you could do with your hands this weekend, rather than scrolling —...
10/16/2026

Here’s something real and meaningful and long lasting you could do with your hands this weekend, rather than scrolling — come put a plant in the ground with us!
Sunday, October 18, 3–6pm · Lakewood Shopping Center median, in front of Bright Black.

Come for part or all of it. Tools, gloves, water covered. No experience needed. Kids welcome. Food after. See you there!!!!!!

10/16/2026

Gather. Create. Connect.

Weekend making experiences at Bright Black are open to all, and private events are available for your people.

Come make something together.

10/15/2026

Early voting starts today yall! You know what to do!!!!!

10/15/2026

Y’all. There are plants in the ground! But we’ve still got a lot more to go!

Witch hazel. Elderberry. Spicebush. Swamp rose. A magnolia sitting right between two maple trees like it’s always been there.

A parking lot median that nobody has ever looked at twice, and it’s starting to look like a garden.

But Sunday is the big one! No hurricanes or tornados in the forecast!

We’ll be planting rosemary and lavender, bulbs that’ll come up in the spring, large pots of goodies and spreading compost and mulch AND sowing clover as a cover crop.

3p - 6p. Lakewood Shopping Center median. Come for 20 minutes. Come for three hours. Bring your wonderful selves! We’ve got tools, gloves, water. There’s food after. Kids are welcome.

This garden is for the four people who raised Pauli Murray. There’s no statue of any of them anywhere. So we made one out of living things. And on Sunday, you’ll be a part of it! See you out there. 🌱

Thank you to Petaling With Mavis for this post!From a kitchen table in Miami to the highest court in the land.Justice Ke...
10/13/2026

Thank you to Petaling With Mavis for this post!

From a kitchen table in Miami to the highest court in the land.

Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson is the first Black woman on the Supreme Court, and the first who ever worked as a federal public defender. Born September 14, the same day as Constance Baker Motley, she writes her dissents in plain English, for the rest of us to read.

She sits for life. The people who put her there had to be elected first.

Read all the way down your ballot, that’s where the benches are!

Rained out. Pivoting again!!!!!!!New work days for Proud Roots…come to any or all:MON Oct 12 · 1–3pmTUE Oct 13 · 4–6pmWE...
10/10/2026

Rained out. Pivoting again!!!!!!!

New work days for Proud Roots…come to any or all:

MON Oct 12 · 1–3pm
TUE Oct 13 · 4–6pm
WED Oct 14 · 9–11am
SUN Oct 18 · 3–6pm ← the big one

Lakewood Shopping Center median, in front of Bright Black. No RSVP, no experience, no tools needed. Just show up. 🌱

Honestly? The land needed the rain. We’ll plant when it’s ready. Thanks for sticking w/us yall!

10/09/2026

Rain or shine, we’re planting Saturday!!!!!

The forecast says it may rain on SAT, as well as Sun, but we’re moving forward y’all. If you have a wheelbarrow or wagon, please bring it. We’ve got compost to move. And come dressed for comfort and potential drizzles!

Come for 20 minutes or 3 hours. No experience needed. Kids welcome.

We’re planting a garden for the four people who raised Pauli Murray, and a little rain ain’t stopping that!!!!!!

Send this to one person. Thank you!!!!!!!

10/08/2026

Last month, more than 50 of you joined us for Scented Storytime!!! Thank you! 💛 We’re back this month at Durham County Library to explore scents as we read books about fall. A cozy, hands-on way for little ones to connect with books.
Friday, October 9; 11am; North Regional Branch; Free

10/07/2026

Heads up: planting day moved to SATURDAY. Sunday’s forecast turned on us: 75% rain, so we’re going a day early.

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 10 · 3–6PM
Lakewood Shopping Center median, in front of Bright Black

Last workday, half the folks who signed up made it. Life happens! But Saturday the plants actually go in the ground, and we need a lot more than half.

Come for 20 min or 3 hours. Bring your beautiful selves: tools, gloves, and water are covered. No gardening experience needed. Kids welcome. Food after.

We’re planting a garden for the four people who raised Pauli Murray. There’s no statue of any of them. So we’re making one out of living things. 🤎

Pls send this to/share this with one person!

(We may be back out Sunday for lighter work if the weather allows, but Saturday’s the big one.)

10/06/2026

We have our first takeover y’all! We invited Black female lawyers and judges to tell the stories of the women on our SUSTAINED label. Today, we welcome Sydney Owens (sydney owens) to Bright Black to tell you all about Norma Holloway Johnson.

Norma was working to support her family by the age of twelve, in the segregated South. She moved to Washington as a teenager for an education Louisiana would have denied her: taught school by day, studied law at night, and rose all the way to the federal bench. In 1997, she became the first Black woman to serve as Chief Judge of a U.S. District Court, presiding over some of the most powerful people in the country without ever once flinching.

This is the power of the bench y’all! Big thanks to Sydney, and next up — Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson!

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