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For Protesters, Trauma Lingers Long After the Marching Ends

By Julia Dupuis — 2021

Instead of relying on systems that have consistently failed the most vulnerable in the protest community, Mullan encourages a shift toward community-based care. “Trust in the community, in the possibility for transformational restorative justice work, can be extremely healing for people who are on the front lines.

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Race, Reclamation, and the Resilience Revolution

In the wake of the death of George Floyd, a black man killed by police in Minneapolis, dharma teacher Larry Ward says we have to “create communities of resilience,” and offers his mantras for this time.

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Larry Ward
2020
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Kwanzaa and Christmas—the Importance of Cultural Tradition

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.

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Jovan A. Brown
2021
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On Blackness and Belonging in America

Black people should not deny themselves spaces where we find joy and wonder—they are too rare in our lives.

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Renée Graham
2020
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Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Continues His Fight for Racial Equality

Basketball legend lauds 'profound influence' of Black athletes when it comes to social justice.

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Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
2021
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A 12-Minute Meditation for Remembering That We Belong to Each Other

Ruth King guides us in a practice to explore the truth of our interconnectedness.

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Ruth King
2021
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Q&A with the Rev. William Barber, Building “Fusion Coalition” that Unites People Against Poverty

Barber makes clear his belief that the role of Christians is to call for social justice and allow the “rejected stones” of American society—the poor, people of color, women, LGBTQIA people, immigrants, religious minorities—to lead the way.

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Alexandra Greenwald
2020
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Only Bridging Can Heal a World of Breaking

Diversity can be a great strength, but it is susceptible to manipulation when not accompanied by community leaders from all backgrounds willing and able to bridge across difference.

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john a. powell
2019
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