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The Pink Robe Chronicles

Womanist Wisdom for Healing, Liberation, and Love

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Pub Date Aug 11 2026 | Archive Date Aug 4 2026


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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.

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...


Advance Praise

“In a time when I have become increasingly disillusioned with the pastors of this world, Sampson remains one of the few spiritual guides I trust. Poetic and clear, she invites us into the journey of her own reclamation of voice, body, and mind.”
Cole Arthur Riley, New York Times bestselling author of This Here Flesh 

The Pink Robe Chronicles is a womanist archive of truth-telling, memory, and spiritual insurgency.”
ebonyjanice Moore, author of All the Black Girls Are Activists 

“Some books find their way into our lives, and it is clear that the ancestors and the generations yet to come conspired to get them to us. They knew that those pages contained whatever we needed in order to be whole and well for the journey ahead. The Pink Robe Chronicles is one such book.”
Candice Marie Benbow, author of Red Lip Theology 

“In a time when I have become increasingly disillusioned with the pastors of this world, Sampson remains one of the few spiritual guides I trust. Poetic and clear, she invites us into the journey of...


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ISBN 9798889831891
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PAGES 198

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I hadn’t heard of Dr. Sampson or her ministry until I came across this book. The cover and subject matter drew me in, and I’m so glad they did. Dr. Sampson’s love ethic is Afrocentric, expansive, and truly a “balm in Gilead” for readers. I especially connected with her insights on raising womanish daughters and the section on Afrocentric communities. I know I’ll be buying my own copy to make use of her “pause and ponder” moments, meditations, and more. I highly recommend it to women’s organizations, hush harbors, and beyond.

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