Our new direction embraces futuring as both a theological commitment and a strategic framework. In her book, Futuring Black Lives: Independent Black Institutions and the Literary Imagination,  Maisha T. Winn 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.