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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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Belonging: Overcome Your Inner Critic and Reclaim Your Joy

Accepting ourselves requires less work, less achieving and less doing than one might think. The path to greater happiness, greater contentment, and greater self-love is the basis for Catherine A. Wood’s debut book, Belonging: Overcome Your Inner Critic and Reclaim Your Joy.

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Catherine A. Wood, Emily Joy Rosen (foreword)
2020
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Far-Right Trump Backers Weaponized Christianity Against Democracy and Could Do It Again

In the waning days of 2020, Serene Jones came face to face with the white supremacist hate that fueled the deadly mob attack on the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6—and that poses the biggest security challenge to President Joe Biden.

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Serene Jones
2021
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Making People Aware of Their Implicit Biases Doesn’t Usually Change Minds. But Here’s What Does Work

Psychologists have yet to find a way to diminish hidden prejudice, but they do have strategies for thwarting discrimination

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Betsy Mason
2020
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A Conversation on Mindfulness, Bias and Racial Justice

It’s difficult to have a conversation about racism, privilege and fragility without things getting heated. In this Point of View Podcast, experts weigh in on the role mindfulness plays in understanding and navigating racial justice.

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Mindful
2019
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Nicole Cardoza Isn’t Writing Her Anti-Racism Newsletter for White People

Amid the nation’s protests, Cardoza began emailing current event explainers and action items to what ended up becoming thousands of subscribers, many looking for information and guidance in a year marked by sickness and brutality.

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Madison Feller
2020
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Auschwitz Survivor Urges Nurses, Doctors at Risk of Pandemic PTSD to Rid Themselves of Guilt

Edith Eger, an Auschwitz survivor and psychologist, predicts nurses and doctors will experience PTSD because of the pandemic.

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Jenni Fink
2021
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Black Designers Are Rarely Featured in Top TV Shows and Movies—But That's About to Change

One woman has made it her mission to connect Black-owned brands with today's top costume designers.

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Fawnia Soo Hoo
2021
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The Apocalyptic Baldwin

I Am Not Your Negro shows how James Baldwin became disillusioned about the possibility of any peaceful resolution to racism, but underplays the force of his internationalist and anti-capitalist perspective.

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Dan Sinykin
2017
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Reading James Baldwin Can Help Heal the Wounds of Racial Division

Baldwin’s words explore what hatred can do not only to society at large but to the individual who bears it.

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Stephen G. Adubato
2020
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The Time James Baldwin Told UC Berkeley that Black Lives Matter

The 27-minute speech was one of many scathing post–civil rights movement critiques Baldwin delivered throughout the country about the treatment of Black people in America.

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Ivan Natividad
2020
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