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What Does it Mean to Be Creative at the End of the World?

By Saeed Jones — 2021

A few months and many deaths ago, I woke up exhausted, again. Every morning, I felt like I was rebuilding myself from the ground up. Waking up was hard. Getting to my desk to write was hard. Taking care of my body was hard. Remembering the point of it all was hard.

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Health Changemaker Barbara Shabazz, PsyD, Is Destigmatizing Mental Illness and Providing Much-Needed Care to the Black Community

Barbara Ford Shabazz, PsyD, of Virginia Beach, Virginia, is painfully familiar with the various mental health issues that many members of the Black community face.

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Maia Niguel Hoskin
2022
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This Is What Activism Does To Your Body

“Even with these health consequences, we can see the benefits of taking a stand because people are fighting for what they believe in and protecting people’s lives,” Sumner said. “I don’t think the answer is to stop altogether. It speaks to how critical it is to engage in self-care.

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Jolie A. Doggett
2019
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Black Activist Burnout: ‘You Can’t Do this Work If You’re Running on Empty’

Activism burnout is particularly rife among Black racial justice activists, not only because they are fighting a centuries-old fight, but they’re also experiencing something called racial battle fatigue.

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Christianna Silva
2020
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The BIPOC Project

The BIPOC Project aims to build authentic and lasting solidarity among Black, Indigenous and People of Color (BIPOC), in order to undo Native invisibility, anti-Blackness, dismantle white supremacy and advance racial justice.

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The BIPOC Project
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The Looting of My Soul

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).

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Kishshana Palmer
2020
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May Disrupting Anti-Black Racism Never Cease

“These are opportune times to transmute the energy of angst into actions that deepen our insight,” says Dr. Kamilah Majied. She invites us to rest in unrest, staying steady in impermanence.

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Kamilah Majied
2020
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Whose Grief? Our Grief

For Saeed Jones, generations collapse into seconds during an American week of chaos and sorrow.

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Saeed Jones
2020
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Howard Thurman—The Baptist Minister Who Had a Deep Influence on MLK

Thurman taught King Jr. that spiritual cultivation was necessary to take on the intense work of social activism.

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Paul Harvey
2019
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Rev. Howard Thurman: ‘The Preacher’s Preacher’

Many argue the Black American struggle for freedom and justice in the 20th century was facilitated mainly via two paths: faith (the church) and the law (the courtroom).

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Sean Yoes
2021
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Pushing Past Tokenism

La Sarmiento has been a leader of American LGBTQ and people-of-color Buddhist communities for close to a decade. I caught up with the trans, queer Filipino teacher before a silent retreat to discuss the dynamics of race and gender in a world that is typically White, cisgender and straight.

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Miriam Zoila Pérez
2016
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