It’s not a Bible study. But on Tuesday and Thursday nights at Juiced, a smoothie bar tucked into the city’s Washington Terrace neighborhood, something that feels spiritual is happening.
Drums echo through the small space. A crowd gathers around a makeshift stage. And one by one, people who’ve survived shootings, prison, addiction and abuse stand up and tell the room exactly what they’ve been through.
“I sat on my altar, asked my ancestors to give me an answer,” poet Imaja Chavis said on stage one night, reading from a piece called “Unfelt.”…