Amid President Donald Trump’s attack on diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI), attempts to erase African American history, and targeting cities with large Black populations such as Washington, D.C., and Chicago, rest itself has become a form of resistance.

For Black Americans and other marginalized groups bearing the brunt of Trump’s harmful policies, activists, politicians and health experts alike emphasize the importance of sleep. As federal protection is stripped away and economic inequality deepens, the lack of restorative rest threatens not just health, but survival.

“Rest is NOT a trend. Liberation from the toxic systems that view our bodies as a machine for profit is also not a trend. This is ANCIENT work,” the Nap Ministry — founded by “Rest is Resistance: A Manifesto” (2022) aut

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