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Howard Thurman - "What Do You Want, Really"

By Howard Thurman — 2011

The great philosopher and mystic Howard Thurman poses the eternal and important question, what do you want, really?

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Midwifing—A Womanist Approach to Pastoral Counseling: Investigating the Fractured Self, Slavery, Violence, and the Black Woman

Midwifing—A Womanist Approach to Pastoral Counseling: Investigating the Fractured Self, Slavery, Violence, and the Black Woman, is an investigation of intergenerational trauma. Exploring the impact of slavery, violence, racism, sexism, classism, and other isms on the self of the Black woman.

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Myrna Thurmond-Malone, Pamela Ayo Yetunde (foreword)
2025
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Toni Morrison: The Last Interview and Other Conversations

In this wide-ranging collection of thought-provoking interviews—including her first and last—Toni Morrison (whom President Barrack Obama called a “national treasure”) details not only her writing life, but also her other careers as a teacher, and as a publisher, as well as the gripping story of...

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Toni Morrison, Nikki Giovanni
2025
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Afro-Nostalgia: Feeling Good in Contemporary Black Culture

The past as a building block of a more affirming and hopeful future As early as the eighteenth century, white Americans and Europeans believed that people of African descent could not experience nostalgia.

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Badia Ahad-Legardy
2021
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Afrikan Wisdom: New Voices Talk Black Liberation, Buddhism, and Beyond

Afrikan Wisdom represents an intersectional, cross-pollinated exploration of Black life--past, present, and future.

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Valerie Mason-John (editor), Jan Willis (foreword)
2025
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Cultural Trauma: Slavery and the Formation of African American Identity (Cambridge Cultural Social Studies)

This book explores the formation of the African-American identity through the theory of cultural trauma. The trauma in question is slavery, not as an institution or as personal experience, but as collective memory—a pervasive remembrance that grounded a people’s sense of itself.

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Ron Eyerman
2008
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How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning With the History of Slavery Across America

Beginning in his hometown of New Orleans, Clint Smith leads the reader on an unforgettable tour of monuments and landmarks—those that are honest about the past and those that are not—that offer an intergenerational story of how slavery has been central in shaping our nation’s collective history,...

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Clint Smith III
2021
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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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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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Resmaa Menakem Discusses Healing Racialized Trauma

Resmaa Menakem spoke to Good Day LA's Michaela Pereira to discuss racialized trauma on Dec. 11.

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Michael Pereira
2020
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Resmaa Menakem on Why Healing Racism Begins with the Body

Trauma therapist and author of My Grandmother's Hands talks honestly and directly about the historical and current traumatic impacts of racism in the U.S., and the necessity for us all to recognize this trauma, metabolize it, work through it, and grow up out of it.

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Resmaa Menakem
2021
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