In conversation with Zora’s Place founder L’Oreal Thompson Payton.

Join us at Zora’s Place for an intimate and nourishing evening with author and wellness writer Tara Pringle Jefferson, celebrating her powerful book Bloom How You Must—a love letter to Black women and the radical, ancestral practice of caring for ourselves and one another.

Bloom How You Must reminds us that self-care is not a trend for Black women—it is a throughline in our history. From Coretta Scott King, Betty Shabazz, and Myrlie Evers-Williams taking intentional pauses amid the Civil Rights Movement, to Rosa Parks practicing yoga, to Toni Morrison tending her gardens while writing literary classics, this book situates rest, joy, and community as acts of resilience and survival.