By Chimdindu Okafor — 2022
While visiting historically Black campuses, I began to reimagine what my college experience could be.
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Close to 11% of American adults with Hispanic ancestors don’t even identify as Hispanic or Latino.
The United States is going through a national examination of conscience on the question of race, and the Latino community is no exception.
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.
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).
“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.
Muhammad Ali’s advocacy for racial justice began with his awareness and experience of racism and white supremacy in Louisville, Kentucky. His dedication to his boxing career was accompanied by his profound conviction that he had a greater purpose.
What can psychology tell us about healing from racial and ethnic trauma?
As both James Baldwin and Martin Luther King, Jr., insisted, America is an identity that white people will protect at any cost, and the country’s history—its founding documents, its national heroes—is the supporting argument that underpins that identity.
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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.
“Students from low-income backgrounds receive daily reminders—interpersonal and institutional, symbolic and structural—that they are the ones who do not belong.”