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

2019

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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Here’s What Ta-Nehisi Coates Told Congress About Reparations

The writer argued that African-Americans were exploited by nearly every American institution, before and after slavery ended.

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The New York Times
2019
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Sacred Therapies: The Kundalini Yoga Meditation Handbook for Mental Health

A simplified version, for consumers, of yoga protocols for optimal mental health.

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David Shannahoff-Khalsa
2012
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Ta-Nehisi Coates Revisits the Case for Reparations

“When I wrote ‘The Case for Reparations,’ my notion wasn’t that you could actually get reparations passed, even in my lifetime,” Coates says.

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The New Yorker
2019
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The Beautiful Struggle: A Memoir

An exceptional father-son story from the National Book Award–winning author of Between the World and Me about the reality that tests us, the myths that sustain us, and the love that saves us.

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Ta-Nehisi Coates
2009
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We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy

“We were eight years in power” was the lament of Reconstruction-era black politicians as the American experiment in multiracial democracy ended with the return of white supremacist rule in the South.

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Ta-Nehisi Coates
2017
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How Can We Respond to Violent Hate?

Three messages by prominent Buddhists address the recent mail bombing campaign and deadly shootings.

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Lawrence Levy, Lama Surya Das, Robert Wright
2018
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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.

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Thomas Chatterton Williams
2020
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Waking Up in Paris: Overcoming Darkness in the City of Light

Devastated by the end of her decades-long marriage, renowned spiritual teacher and intuitive guide Sonia Choquette undertook an unexpected move and relocated to Paris.

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Sonia Choquette
2019
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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.

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Jorja Leap
2016
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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.

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Timothy Nelson
2004
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