nayasamuel

🔪 wrote 22 feature articles on influential black women in sports for @sportsillustrated this year ✅ thank you @empoweronyx for the opportunity 💋💋 and everyone i spoke to…working exclusively with black women to execute this was simply 😍🤌🏾 read them all at si.com/author/naya-samuel 🌹

speechless from such a powerful day with my sisters but swipe to hear me sing my favorite song!!! 🤪 abolish nypd, abolish rikers, abolish all forms of modern slavery, and don’t forget that black women don’t owe you shit.

“Be Home Soon” for @officemagazinenyc Issue 16 🌎

another innocent black man lynched in amerikkka today. there is only one solution 💔💔 rest in power Marcellus Williams

tender moments in marseille 🦪 🌞 🧊 🫶🏽

home lately📍🥥 🇹🇹

free the people mind, body and soul

In perpetual awe of the family I've built on the African continent, in the Global South and across the diaspora over the past three years. For the siblings I’d travel any amount of space or time to hold, and for those who’ve chosen me to guide them home. Really, what is a border between us? 🌎🩵

greatful 💘

Aye @anaoftheclouds was just in Accra courtesy of Naya and @rootsglobalagency and soon we’ll be back on the continent for Strange Fruit 🍉 We continue presenting to your the roster for our upcoming South Africa trip… Naya Samuel is a Trinidadian-American writer and community organizer, currently based in New York City. Her work investigates sacred commonalities & historical modes of communication, and avenues of disruption across the African diaspora. With a focus on performative dance and rhythm expression as conduits for language and indigenous modes of healing she aims to synthesize cultural presentation into political solidarity.   Samuel is a founding member of the CORPUS Family initiative where she developed and facilitated programming including an annual book club; has helped fundraise over 60K for artists affected by COVID-19 and other initiatives; and organized and led “Uprising: A March for Black Women” in 2020 in collaboration with the community hub, Public Assistants. She is the Community Manager at BUILD NYC, a youth program across six New York Public Schools, pairing high schoolers keen in starting their own businesses with established adult mentors. She is privileged to be working and developing creative ventures on the Africa continent and across the Global South, which she hearkens as a deconstruction of the Western notion that African-descendant peoples are an isolated global minority. Through her work in Ghana as part of Roots Global Agency, she has been able to collaborate with the Ghana Socialist Movement, the All African Peoples Revolutionary Party, former Black Panther Party members, and more. 📸: @brittony.mckenney

abonten 🇬🇭✨

catch me tomorrow at @dearfriendbooks ❤️‍🩹 for a very tender moment 💋🌹 reading a selection of my most precious reprogramming texts by girlies who kiss girlies🫡 “The practical premise of the monthly reading series is to assemble a motley of subjects (readers) who will be prompted to bring a series of other writer's work that has been resonant, instructive, or life-changing to them in their personal practice and lives. The principled goal of the reading is to mold a listening session that garners more of the subject's history, political station, persona, and authenticity.” thank u top bb @jaylentstrong for having me 🫶🏽‼️