Join Dr. Joy DeGruy and Dr. Bahia Cross for a powerful conversation on racial trauma, healing, and protecting the next generation.
Black youth are growing up in a society shaped by anti-Black systems that too often fail to see their full humanity — and can do lasting harm. But healing is possible — when we center truth, justice, and love.
On Wednesday, July 30, at 5 p.m. PT / 8 p.m. ET, join Word In Black for a special Facebook Live event that explores how we can help Black youth heal from racial trauma — and create the conditions for them to thrive.
We’ll be in conversation with two leading voices in racial healing:
- Dr. Joy DeGruy, author of “Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome” and founder of the Be The Healing movement
- Dr. Bahia Cross (Overton), executive director of the Portland-based Black Parent Initiative and expert in the well-being of Black girls in foster care
Dr. Joy and Dr. Bahia will be joined by Liz Courquet-Lesaulnier, managing director of Word In Black; Ashanti Branch, founder and executive director of the Oakland-based Ever Forward Club; and Word In Black’s Racial Healing Fellows.
Join us for a conversation that, as Dr. Bahia wrote, is “committed to beaming light and love to every Black child, woman, man, and all the other ways we identify ourselves.”
Click here to RSVP and watch live on Facebook