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Healing Racialized Trauma Begins with Your Body

By Resmaa Menakem — 2020

Resmaaa connects the healing of your body, mind, and soul with the healing of our country and our world.

Read on www.psychologytoday.com

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4 Ways to Honor Native Americans Without Appropriating Our Culture

There is a fine line between appropriation and appreciation. There are many ways to truly honor and appreciate each of the 566 unique, federally recognized tribes in the US, and that includes adorning your kid’s toes in some comfy mocs (but not their head in a headdress).

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Taté Walker
2014
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Unpacking the Embodied Plantation Backpack

If you have an African American body, welcome. I wrote this blog post—and the body practice at the end—especially for you. (Everyone else, welcome as well—but please skip the body practice.)

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Resmaa Menakem
2021
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Rachel Ricketts’ New Book Explores How Spiritual Activism Can Be Used as a Tool to Heal from White Supremacy

A question many have been asking is what it will take for the racial healing that the world so desperately needs. Rachel Ricketts explores this topic in her new book Do Better: Spiritual Activism for Fighting and Healing from White Supremacy.

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Janice Gassam Asare
2021
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Ta-Nehisi Coates on Why Whites Like His Writing

“The history is what the history is. And it is disrespectful, to white people, to soften the history.”

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Felice León
2015
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Dr. Serene Jones on Owning Up to the Legacies of Racism

Serene Jones discusses the concepts of grace and sin in this 2019 interview.

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Simran Jeet Singh
2019
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The History that James Baldwin Wanted America to See

As both James Baldwin and Martin Luther King, Jr., insisted, America is an identity that white people will protect at any cost, and the country’s history—its founding documents, its national heroes—is the supporting argument that underpins that identity.

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Eddie S. Glaude, Jr.
2020
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How Racism Began as White-On-White Violence

Did over ten centuries of decontextualized medieval European brutality, which was inflicted on white bodies by other white bodies, begin to look like culture? Did this inter-generational trauma and its possible epigenetic effects end with European immigrants’ arrival in the “New World”?

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Resmaa Menakem
2018
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Unpacking the Embodied Plantation Backpack: The White Body’s Burden

Soon after an American baby is born, they are put into a cute little onesie. But at the same time, they also get fitted with a heavy, invisible backpack.

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Resmaa Menakem
2021
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Taking a Spiritual Approach to Anti-Racist Work

Racial justice educator Rachel Ricketts knows that anti-racism is new to a lot of people.

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Rachel Ricketts
2020
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john a. powell: Opening to the Question of Belonging

“Race is a little bit like gravity,” john powell says: experienced by all, understood by few. He is a refreshing, redemptive thinker who counsels all kinds of people and projects on the front lines of our present racial longings.

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Krista Tippett
2018
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