By Chelsey Luger — 2017
A cannabis company believes the pot industry could save tribal nations from poverty. But many argue it would only make a drug problem worse.
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Alzo Slade participates in an “Emotional Emancipation Circle,” an Afrocentric support group created by the Community Healing Network and the Association of Black Psychologists. It’s a safe space for Black people to share personal experiences with racism and to process racial trauma.
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The stress of ongoing, systemic racism is mentally and physically traumatizing Black individuals and their communities.
There’s growing research into racism’s real impact on the body, especially how stress can impact health and how your DNA works. Resmaa Menakem, a therapist and trauma specialist has been drawing on this research for years.
The Politics of Trauma offers somatics with a social analysis. This book is for therapists and social activists who understand that trauma healing is not just for individuals—and that social change is not just for movement builders.
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Monnica T. Williams, Ph.D., ABPP, is an Associate Professor in the School of Psychology at the University of Ottawa, Canada Research Chair in Mental Health Disparities, and Director of the Laboratory for Culture and Mental Health Disparities.
New York Times Best Selling writer, author of "My Grandmother's Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies", Resmaa Menakem joins the chat.