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Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome. How Is It Different From PTSD? - AJ+ Opinion

2019

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How is Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome different from PTSD? Dr. Joy DeGruy explains how trauma can be passed on generation after generation. How is Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome different from PTSD? Dr. Joy DeGruy explains how trauma can be passed on generation after generation.

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The Story Behind Rosa Parks and Yoga

How Georgia State University professor Dr. Stephanie Evans uncovered pictures of the iconic Civil Rights activist practicing asana.

Black Women and Social Justice Education: Legacies and Lessons

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Black Women in the Ivory Tower, 1850–1954: An Intellectual History

Evans chronicles the stories of African American women who struggled for and won access to formal education, beginning in 1850, when Lucy Stanton, a student at Oberlin College, earned the first college diploma conferred on an African American woman.

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Black Women’s Mental Health: Balancing Strength and Vulnerability

This book offers a unique, interdisciplinary, and thoughtful look at the challenges and potency of Black women’s struggle for inner peace and mental stability.

Stephanie Y. Evans (editor), Nsenga K. Burton (editor), Kanika Bell (editor)

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We Will Not Cancel Us: And Other Dreams of Transformative Justice

“Cancel” or “call-out” culture is a source of much tension and debate in American society. The infamous "Harper’s Letter,” signed by public intellectuals of both the left and right, sought to settle the matter and only caused greater division.

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salt.

Nayyirah Waheed.salt. is a journey through warmth and sharpness. this collection of poetry explores the realities of multiple identities, language, diasporic life & pain, the self, community, healing, celebration, and love.

Nayyirah Waheed

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Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good

How do we make social justice the most pleasurable human experience? How can we awaken within ourselves desires that make it impossible to settle for anything less than a fulfilling life? Author and editor adrienne maree brown finds the answer in something she calls “pleasure activism,” a...

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Oppression and the Body: Roots, Resistance, and Resolutions

Asserting that the body is the main site of oppression in Western society, the contributors to this pioneering volume explore the complex issue of embodiment and how it relates to social inclusion and marginalization.

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In a remote interview, Gorman and Obama covered topics ranging from the role of art in activism to the pressures Black women face in the spotlight.

On My Journey Now: Looking at African-American History Through the Spirituals

Ever since she was a little girl attending three different churches, poet Nikki Giovanni has loved the spirituals.

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