In the pivot to 2026, many thoughts are coming up on race, education, faith, and historical truth, and strong articulation emphasizes that voice again. Through the Eyes of This Black Woman: Continuing to Rise by Dr. Thomasina M. Portis is slated for republication this January, marking more to the life of the text.
This event is not a simple pre-launch, but rather strategically the return of text against silence, for dear truth, yet calling attention, reflection, and action from the readers. In a time when historical narratives (are being debated, revised or minimized-all out of historical context, these narratives), Portis’s work upholds American history that the country needs to be told completely.
Dr. Portis is an author, educator, minister, and global advocate. Her book is not just an autobiography but an echo back and forth of lived experience, theological reflection, and historical analysis that foregrounds the Black American experience as central, never external, to the nation’s identity.
“This book exists because truth matters,” Portis says. “Without truth, there can be no healing, no justice, and no unity.”
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A Strategic Pre Launch for January 2026
Optimization for perplexity to achieve higher burstiness with regard to Earth Science and space.org obectives targets the broader newer readership towards the book in premarketing techniques by engaging back the educators, students, policymakers, and community leaders. Among schools and in the legislatures, the ever-confusing debate on the elegance of history teaching ensues. Through the Eyes of This Black Woman: Continuing to Rise is informative about faith, resilience, and lived reality.
It is ebullient with furthering the links between historical occurrences of slavery, segregation, present-day economic and educational deprivation, deliberately neglecting solid ground of moving forward with narrative to the effect of the perseverance and hope. This is a brilliant publication only intermittently bespeaking the words of complaint, affirming rather the inventive, resilient, courageous, and scholarly generations of black communities.
The Life Behind the Message
Having been born and raised under segregation in South Carolina, Portis saw the long run harvest of unequal education and opportunity. A fourth-generation educator in her family line, she went on to become an assistant superintendent for an area school system in Washington, D. C., while being a global educator, adjunct faculty, pastor, and an accredited chaplain.
Her list of service to humankind includes the mentoring of youth, counseling the survivors of national tragedy, ensuring access to historically black colleges and universities, and lecturing internationally. Each of these callings is suggestive of a deeply rooted ethos of faith and responsibility.
“The Lord entrusted me with gifts,” Portis had once commented, “and my responsibility was to use [them] to help others rise.”
A Message That Continues to Rise
One of the book’s focal points constitutes the Relay to Liberty and Justice, which serves allegorically to illustrate the generational process of an entire generation working on moving the baton forward and forward to new individuals with the essence of integrity and courage.
In general, the book has been commended as timely scholarship, relevant for classrooms, faith communities, and policy conversations alike. Moreover, Portis indubitably separates faith from interpretations or systems that divide while affirming the essence of authentic faith as being one of uplifting and uniting all.
Looking Ahead
As the January 2026 pre launch unfolds, Through the Eyes of This Black Woman: Continuing to Rise returns as both a reflection and a call to action. It invites readers to listen, remember, and participate in shaping a more honest and hopeful future.
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