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Black Well-Being & belonging

Below are the best resources we could find on Black Well-Being and belonging.

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The Origin of Others

America’s foremost novelist reflects on the themes that preoccupy her work and increasingly dominate national and world politics: race, fear, borders, the mass movement of peoples, the desire for belonging.

Toni Morrison, Ta-Nehisi Coates (foreword)

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How We Fight for Our Lives: A Memoir

Haunted and haunting, How We Fight for Our Lives is a stunning coming-of-age memoir about a young, black, gay man from the South as he fights to carve out a place for himself, within his family, within his country, within his own hopes, desires, and fears.

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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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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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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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Muhammad Ali: Wake Up and Apologize (1972)

This super-rare conversation between The GOAT and Irish broadcaster Cathal O’Sannon is the hands down the most insightful and reflective I have ever seen with the Champ. And it has never been broadcast on American TV. Originally shared on the RTE Television Archive website.

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Belonging: A Culture of Place

What does it mean to call a place home? Who is allowed to become a member of a community? When can we say that we truly belong? These are some of the questions of place and belonging that renowned cultural critic bell hooks examines in her new book, Belonging: A Culture of Place.

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What Black Motherhood Means to Me

“Black motherhood has always been and continues to be a beautifully divine, liberating, and revolutionary act.”

Katie Hintz-Zambrano

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bell hooks and john a. powell: Belonging Through Connection

Othering & Belonging Conference, 2015

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Do We Ask Too Much of Black Heroes?

The Black American hero is necessarily more complicated than the mainstream “Great American heroes.”

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