Dr. 'Demi Fauziyyah ADEBO-Adelaja

May's COLLECTIVE Book Club selection asks a question that cuts deep. What Passes as Love by Trisha R. Thomas takes us to 1850s Virginia, into the life of Dahlia — a woman born into slavery who dares to reinvent herself in pursuit of freedom. But freedom, she discovers, is more complicated than escape. This is a story about identity, survival, and the versions of ourselves we wear just to get through — and what it costs to find our way back.

April's COLLECTIVE Book Club reflection invites us into a story that stayed long after the last page. Kin by Tayari Jones found us where we were — and led us somewhere deeper. Through Vernice and Annie, two women shaped by the wound of motherlessness, we explored what we inherit without choosing, and how absence can quietly author the whole of a life.

Honoring National Minority Health Month There are conversations we have every April. Conversations about access, outcomes, and disparities. While those conversations matter, they often stop short of something deeper. Health is not only about what we can access, but also about what we are able to sustain over time. It is about rhythm. It is about restoration. It is about whether the body, the heart, and the spirit are ever given the chance to return. This is the conversation we must have...