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Yurugu: An African-Centered Critique of European Cultural Thought and Behavior
By: Marimba Ani Yurugu removes the mask from the European facade and thereby reveals the inner workings of global white supremacy: A system which functions to guarantee the control of Europe and her descendants over the majority of the world's peoples. |
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Akbar Papers in African Psychology
By: Na’im Akbar Akbar Papers in African Psychology is an important compilation of works that have helped define and shape the discipline known as African psychology. For laypeople and students unfamiliar with the discipline, it may serve as a primer on African personality theory. |
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Breathe: A Message to My Sons
By: Imani Perry In the wake of Black people being murdered, Imani Perry reminds her sons to live life to the fullest, rather than living in fear. |
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Racism is Terrible. Blackness is Not.
By: Imani Perry Imani Perry discusses the resilience of Black people, white American’s response to racist murders of Black people, and how being Black is not a tragedy but a source of pride. |
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A Growing Dilemma: Police Violence, Mental Health, and Black Communities
By: Howard University School of Law – The Movement Lawyering Clinic A report on the effects of police violence and racism on mental health, and community-based solutions for mental health. |
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Black Girls Living the Answers: How Young Black Girls Cocreate and Construct Worlds Through Participatory Art Making and Collectivism
By: Maureen W. Nicol Set in New Orleans, Louisiana, this study examines how young Black girls curate joy, resist everyday violence, and promote well-being in their daily lives through the use of photography, Black girl literacies, and collective art making. |
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Can I Get a Witness?—Living While Black Death is Trending
By: Lisa Del Sol This project compares past and present methods for documenting and sharing Black trauma. Today, social media is used to bear witness, to organize, and to curate digital memories of the dead. Witnessing is further extended and complicated on digital platforms, providing an abundance of visual evidence that has proven to be vital in leading to prosecutions and arrests of violent state officials, and perpetrators of extrajudicial violence. |
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Cultural Responses to Loss and Grief among Black Americans: Theory and Practice Implications for Clinicians
By: Sharon E. Moore, Sharon Jones-Eversley, Willie F. Tolliver, Betty Wilson, & Dana K. Harmon This article provides mental health providers with a spiritual and religious context for Black people to process their grief, in order to survive the grief-ridden sociopolitical climate in the U.S. |
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Endless Mourning: Racial Melancholia, Black Grief, and the Transformative Possibilities for Racial Justice in Education
By: Justin Grinage In this article, the author analyzes how Black youth process racial trauma to understand Black resistance to racism. |
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When Grief and Crises Intersect: Perspectives of a Black Physician in the Time of Two Pandemics
By: Kimberly D. Manning, MD Tips for how to process grief in the midst of a pandemic and racially-motivated murders. |
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