By Felicia R. Lee — 2000
Ms. Williams's book . . . is more than just a paean to Buddhism. It is also a call for black Americans to look inward
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Psychologist Riana Elyse Anderson explains how families can communicate about race and cope with racial stress and trauma.
Kwanzaa was instituted as a means to reaffirm the human agency and cultural dignity of people of African descent. This agency was disrupted during enslavement as persons who owned enslaved Africans, influenced a displacement of practices that were intrinsically African.
African Americans internalize, or come to believe, the negative stereotypes directed against them, and thus suffer from low self-esteem.
There is no “one size fits all” language when it comes to talking about race.
“I still eat rice and beans. I just use brown rice now,” said Annya Santana of Menos Mas, a wellness company that speaks to African-American and Latinx communities.
I will start at the end. All lives will not (really) matter until Black lives Matter. All Lives Matter is like a giant eraser; a thing folx say to remain comfortable at best and neutral at worst while erasing the obvious (Black Lives Matter TOO).
Black people should not deny themselves spaces where we find joy and wonder—they are too rare in our lives.
Where society has told Black people to “be quiet”, or that we’re “too loud”, revelling in joy is an act of resistance. As our feeds become even more inundated with images of trauma, joy can help us heal, too.
Characterized throughout American history as symbols of crisis, trauma, and grief, these women consistently reject those narratives through world-making of their own.
Amid protests against police brutality and structural racism toward black Americans, some lean into the joy of tradition as resistance.