The Pink Robe Chronicles

Name: The Pink Robe Chronicles
ISBN: 9798889831891

Womanist Wisdom for Healing, Liberation, and Love

by Melva L. Sampson

Publisher

Broadleaf Books

Publication

Aug 11, 2026

Format

Hardback

Illustrated

Price

24.99

Dimensions

5.75 x 8.75 in

ISBN

9798889831891

Pages

198

Age

Adult 18+

Rights Sold

🌍 World Wide Rights Available

Description

For Black women who've grown weary of shrinking back.

The Pink Robe Chronicles began in a moment of heartbreak. In August 2016, Rev. Dr. Melva L. Sampson wrapped herself in a tattered pink robe, pressed "Go live" on Facebook, and preached from her living room--grieving the police killing of Korryn Gaines and the silencing of her own voice in the pulpit. That livestream became a sanctuary. Week after week, she showed up in her robe, offering meditations on justice, healing, and spiritual insurgency. What started as a digital hush harbor grew into a movement.

Now, in this powerful new collection of womanist wisdom, Dr. Sampson weaves together sermons, essays, letters, and reflections that center the lived experiences of Black women navigating identity, trauma, joy, and liberation. With fierce honesty and poetic depth, she chronicles her journey from silence to sovereignty, bringing ancestral wisdom, theological insight, and radical love into a sacred space for the weary and the rising.

Each chapter closes with prompts, meditations, and affirmations that invite us into reflection, healing, and embodied truth-telling. The Pink Robe Chronicles offers a space to rest, rage, and reimagine. It is a love letter to Black women's brilliance, a call to collective healing, and a reminder that our stories are sacred--and our voices, unchained.

Awards & Endorsements

Tamura Lomax, PhD, author of Freeing Black Girls: A Black Feminist Bible on Racism and Revolutionary Mothering

"This sacred dialectic narrative examines questions of revolutionary Black girlhood and womanist formation in a world that seeks to silence, surveil, erase, and shame Black girls and women. Merging womanist analysis with storytelling, Sampson speaks us into wholeness by insisting on bodily autonomy, spiritual agency, radical truth, remembering, sacred audacity, and righteous rage. The Pink Robe Chronicles is a necessary political technology of defiance and sacred reckoning that will move readers from scarcity to audacious possibility."

Author(s)

Melva L. Sampson

Rev. Melva L. Sampson, PhD, is a preacher, practical theologian, and digital innovator whose groundbreaking ministry, The Pink Robe Chronicles, has created sacred space for healing, imagination, and liberation. An assistant teaching professor at Wake Forest University School of Divinity, she weaves womanist wisdom, ancestral memory, and Afrofuturist vision into her scholarship and storytelling. Her work bridges the digital hush harbor, embodied spirituality, and communal flourishing, inviting readers into a practice of love, resilience, and justice.