Our new direction embraces futuring as both a theological commitment and a strategic framework. According to Maisha T. Winn in her book entitled Futuring Black Lives: Independent Black Institutions and the Literary Imagination she defines “futuring” as a practice of imagining, designing, and preparing for liberated Black futures by drawing on the intellectual, cultural, and institutional traditions created by Black communities themselves.” Furthermore, it is a refusal to be constrained by the crises of the present. It is a declaration that Black futures are sacred, possible, and already unfolding.