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February 23, 2023

By Gayatri Patnaik and Christian Coleman | In her compelling Boston Globe article “Celebrating Black History Month as Black History Is Being Erased,” Renée Graham writes that Black History Month this year has a specific purpose and burden, “and that burden is not for Black people to bear alone.” The challenge, Graham notes, “is to save this crucial American history from being eroded book by book, law by law, and state by state.” We couldn’t agree more. Read more →

Posted at 08:12 AM in A Black Women’s History of the United States, Activism, American Society, An African American and Latinx History of the United States, Christian Coleman, Defund Fear, Freedom Dreams, Gayatri Patnaik, History, Living While Black, Queer Perspectives, Race and Ethnicity in America, Science and Medicine, Ten Lives, Ten Demands, Unapologetic | | Comments (0)

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Black Resistance Knows No Bounds in History: A Reading List

February 17, 2023

The Sunshine Pearl-Clutching Brigade is back on their BS and doubling down. Under Governor Ron DeSantis, Florida banned a new AP African American Studies course under the pretense that it’s “indoctrination” that “runs afoul of [their] standards.” This is almost a year after the Florida legislature banned the teaching of “the state-sanctioned racism that is critical race theory” with the Stop WOKE Act. It’s giving unwoke on numerous levels. Read more →

Posted at 03:33 PM in A Black Women’s History of the United States, A Worthy Piece of Work, An Afro-Indigenous History of the United States, And the Category Is..., Biography and Memoir, Christian Coleman, Freedom Dreams, History, Jesus and the Disinherited, Living While Black, One Drop, Queer Perspectives, Race and Ethnicity in America, Religion, School Clothes, Science and Medicine, Soul Culture, The Birdcatcher, Twice As Hard | | Comments (0)

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Overcoming the Trauma of Anti-Black Racism Through Radical Self-Care

February 23, 2022

By Guilaine Kinouani | Racism causes harm. Harm to the body. And harm to the mind. Yet it was only in November 2020 that the American Medical Association recognized racism as an urgent threat to public health. Thankfully, many of us did not wait for this penny to drop to tackle its impact. For about fifteen years, I have been working therapeutically with people of color, supporting almost exclusively Black people distressed by racism and experiencing racial trauma. Read more →

Posted at 04:59 PM in Guilaine Kinouani, Living While Black, Race and Ethnicity in America, Science and Medicine | | Comments (0)

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#SorryNotSorry, Book Banners, Black History Is Still Happening

February 10, 2022

What a difference a year makes. Book banning is back—and it’s on steroids. Is it a coincidence that it’s all the rave—more like rage—during Black History Month? The pearl-clutchers have assembled and are targeting not only books dealing with sex and gender but also books featuring Black themes and US history. It’s a predictable flex. A tired flex. Read more →

Posted at 03:33 PM in Activism, American Society, An African American and Latinx History of the United States, An Afro-Indigenous History of the United States, And the Category Is..., Biography and Memoir, Christian Coleman, Crystal Marie Fleming, Cynthia B. Dillard, Feminism, Gender, and Sexuality, Guilaine Kinouani, History, How to Be Less Stupid About Race, James Baldwin, Keisha N. Blain, Kyle T. Mays, Living While Black, Martin Luther King, Jr., Paul Ortiz, Progressive Education, Queer Perspectives, Race and Ethnicity in America, Ricky Tucker, Science and Medicine, Sheryll Cashin, Solomon Jones, Ten Lives, Ten Demands, The Price of the Ticket, The Spirit of Our Work, The Young Crusaders, Until I Am Free, V. P. Franklin, Where Do We Go From Here?, White Space, Black Hood | | Comments (0)

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