Dear Black Nation

<p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Written from inside a prison yet refusing a prisoner's mind </span><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Emick Lee</strong><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> offers a clear courageous summons to Black families churches and the global diaspora: </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>pray it then build it</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>. With the cadence of the ancestors and the precision of a blueprint </span><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Dear Black Nation</strong><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> moves readers from lament to logistics-household by household block by block nation to nation. </span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Across twelve covenant-driven chapters-</span><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>The Covenant of One</strong><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> </span><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Sovereign Wealth of the Spirit</strong><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> </span><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Homecoming</strong><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> </span><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>The Crown</strong><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> </span><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Deliverance</strong><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> </span><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>The One Drum</strong><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> </span><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Exodus from the American Dream</strong><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> </span><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Church Without Walls</strong><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> </span><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Church Unbound Nation Restored</strong><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> </span><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>From Pews to Streets</strong><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> </span><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>From Culture to Kingdom</strong><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> and </span><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Spiritual Nationhood Rising</strong><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>-Lee braids prayer and policy into a daily discipline. Readers are called to honor mothers and fathers; defend women and children; apprentice the young; keep books open and power accountable; circulate economics like living water; and turn sanctuaries into training grounds. The drumbeat is practical: </span><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>discipline at dawn diligence at noon devotion at night</strong><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>. </span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>What sets this book apart is its vantage point and its verbs. Lee writes from the belly of the machine but refuses despair handing communities a kitchen-table constitution: draft family covenants write wills and fund trusts buy and keep land restore language and craft build councils that are clean and measure wealth by the lives made whole-not by spectacle or status. Read a page do a thing. Read another page build a team. </span></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Use it in circles</strong><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>-living rooms and classrooms church basements and barber shops reentry homes and youth centers. Read it aloud. Let every prayer become policy and every amen become an assignment. As the author insists: </span><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>We begin now. And we do not stop.</strong><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> </span></p>