Racial Healing Finds New Voice in Community Poets
A short, rhyming kindergarten verse that ended with a simple “I love you,” was Kelvin “KJ” Marshall’s first step into poetry. Fifteen years later, Marshall, now 22, understands how that…
Racial Healing Starts With Honest Conversations
Affirming identity helps young people process racism without internalizing harm.
Racial Healing in Black America: What the Data Tells Us
A new Word In Black survey examines how Black Americans define racial healing — and why so many say the country is still far from it.
When ‘Life Is Life-ing’, This Newsletter Helps Black Women Be Free
Joanne Griffith’s “Get Free Guide” newsletter teaches women how to get “unstuck.”
Sorcery and Sustenance: The Art of Food and Racial Healing
Artist Masud Olufani’s extended trip to Sierra Leone changed his perspective on Black people and their relationship to food. It also inspired a series of mixed-media artwork that uses the…
When the System Pulls Back, Black Communities Pull Up
BEAM grounds its work in healing justice, confronting trauma, and centering care as liberation.
Ruha Benjamin: In A.I. Era, Black Women Must Reclaim Tomorrow
To thrive in the future, Black women must push back against forces that would erase or marginalize them, imagine themselves empowered, and engage in individual acts of resistance.
Do We Love You? Ruth Forman Says Yes
Forman’s poetry and children’s books carry a core truth: Black children deserve joy, affirmation, and the healing power of love.
A New Vocabulary for Racial Healing
Through her emotional justice framework, Esther Armah offers language for Black thriving across the diaspora.
In Newark, the Healing Power of Food and Community
What began as a cooking demonstration unfolded into a collective reckoning on inequity and a glimpse of collective repair.
How Ancient Practices at UMBC Heal Old Wounds
For centuries, people and communities have used the concept of talking to one another around a circle to resolve conflict and foster understanding. At UMBC, the concept has been embraced…
TUNE IN: Word In Black With Dr. Joy DeGruy and Dr. Bahia Cross
Join us on Wednesday, July 30, for a must-watch convo on healing Black youth from racial trauma with Dr. Joy DeGruy and Dr. Bahia Cross.
This New Political Movement Is Bringing Power to Black People
After a 24-hour livestream and a 12-city national tour, the State of the People POWER tour landed in Philadelphia, looking to empower Black voters, fight disinformation and connect people to…
This Black Podcaster Keeps it Green — and Real
With a hit podcast sponsored by a public radio station, Colah B. Tawkin connects Black people to the healing properties of plant life and nature.
‘The Ancestors Were Speaking’: My Pilgrimage to Ghana
Every year, tens of thousands of African Americans — including former President Barack Obama and Kendrick Lamar — flock to Ghana to reconnect with their African roots.
Celebrating Achievement, Honoring Presence at Rutgers
Feeling unseen after a racial controversy involving the school’s president, Black students at Rutgers created Rites of Passage, a graduation-adjacent ceremony that incorporates traditions from folk ceremonies with those from…
Deconstruction Zone: ‘Womanist’ Writers Prompt Racial Healing
Coined by Alice Walker, womanist literature centers the ideas and experiences of Black women simultaneously fighting sexism and racism.
How a Murder United an HBCU and a Mostly-White UniversityÂ
Since their son’s murder, Richard Collins’ parents have helped convene the BSU-UMD Social Justice Alliance Spring Symposium, which the community together to discuss racial healing.
‘Haus’ of Art, Fashion — and Healing
Eschewing her accounting degree, Amanda Moore-Karim turned her fashion industry experience into a website and racial-healing collective.
Healing the Scars of Incarceration, One Performance at a Time
Newark’s Ritual4Return program enables formerly incarcerated individuals to release trauma through the arts.
The Black Bookstore Healing Memphis Through Literature
At DeMoir Books & Things, the carefully curated shelves offer what the literary world often withholds: recognition and repair.
‘The Free-est Therapy’: Digging in the Dirt at Spelman College
Gardening is a communal practice Black people use to heal. By centering nature, you’re less susceptible to colonialism-driven grind culture.
Still Wounded From the Gray Uprising, Baltimore Heals With Art
The unrest may be over, but the pain Baltimore experienced after police killed Freddie Gray in 2015 still lingers. But UMBC’s Shriver Center, in partnership with arts nonprofits, brought healing…
What Happens When Strangers Talk Openly About Race?
Healing circles at the University of Maryland-Baltimore County build common ground among students to spark action and healing.