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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.

05:48 min

Self-Portrait in Black and White: Family, Fatherhood, and Rethinking Race

The son of a “black” father and a “white” mother, Thomas Chatterton Williams found himself questioning long-held convictions about race upon the birth of his blond-haired, blue-eyed daughter―and came to realize that these categories cannot adequately capture either of them, or anyone else.

Thomas Chatterton Williams

Project Fatherhood: A Story of Courage and Healing in One of America’s Toughest Communities

In 2010, former gang leader turned community activist Big Mike Cummings asked UCLA gang expert Jorja Leap to co-lead a group of men struggling to be better fathers in Watts, South Los Angeles, a neighborhood long burdened with a legacy of racialized poverty, violence, and incarceration.

Every Time I Feel the Spirit: Religious Experience and Ritual in an African American Church

Dreams and visions, prophetic words from God about "dusty souls," speaking in tongues while "in the spirit"—narratives of these and similar events comprise the heart of Every Time I Feel the Spirit.

This Far by Faith: Stories from the African American Religious Experience

A companion to the PBS series, This Far by Faith is the story of how religious faith inspired the greatest social movement in American history—the U.S. Civil Rights movement.

Juan Williams, Quinton Dixie

Yoga as a Peace Practice: A Curriculum for Our Times

Yoga As A Peace Practice teaches ancient contemplative practices of yoga to help individuals impacted by violence improve their wellbeing and move toward self-love and wholeness

Black Yoga Teacher's Alliance (BYTA): Jana Long on the Yoga as a Peace Practice Program

Yoga U contributing writer Lacey Gibson Ramirez speaks with Jana Long on her yoga journey and her leadership of Black Yoga Teachers Alliance.

Black Women’s Yoga History: Memoirs of Inner Peace

How have Black women elders managed stress? In Black Women’s Yoga History, Stephanie Y.

Stephanie Y. Evans, Jana Long (foreword)

I’m Black When I’m Singing, I’m Blue When I Ain’t and Other Plays

Sonia Sanchez is a prolific, award-winning poet and one of the most prominent writers in the Black Arts movement. This collection brings her plays together in one volume for the first time.

Sonia Sanchez Speaks Truth to Power, Poetically [Interview]

A formalist with wide poetic range, Sanchez’s vast body of work includes poems that delve into themes that resonate with those who’ve known isolation’s dance.

Penny Dickerson

Vegan Women of Color Break New Ground

Vegan women of color around the country are on a mission to prove just how connected animal welfare is to gender, race, and class issues.

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Intergenerational Trauma