By Chimdindu Okafor — 2022
While visiting historically Black campuses, I began to reimagine what my college experience could be.
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“I’ve never seen Native people in media at all.”
Here’s a list of resources that may help if you’re looking for mental health support that validates and celebrates your Blackness.
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Rhonda Magee explains how mindfulness-based awareness and compassion is key to racial justice work.
When Kimberlé Crenshaw coined the term 30 years ago, it was a relatively obscure legal concept. Then it went viral.
One major factor in understanding PTSD in ethnoracial minorities is the impact of racism on emotional and psychological well-being. Racism continues to be a daily part of American culture, and racial barriers have an overwhelming impact on the oppressed.
“The history is what the history is. And it is disrespectful, to white people, to soften the history.”
Two hundred fifty years of slavery. Ninety years of Jim Crow. Sixty years of separate but equal. Thirty-five years of racist housing policy. Until we reckon with our compounding moral debts, America will never be whole.
Four years ago, I opposed reparations. Here's the story of how my thinking has evolved since then.
And why you can’t blame progressivism for the Democrats’ losses this election.
Serene Jones discusses the concepts of grace and sin in this 2019 interview.