I LOVE the Salutogenic approach to healing. It puts the appropriate Western words on how many indigenous groups view the healing process. This model allows us to focus on resilience. Being fully engaged with my African community in the Motherland, I will always bare witness to trauma. The beauty is in how I am transformed by these experiences. " Healing centered engagement is akin to the South African term “Ubuntu” meaning that humanness is found through our interdependence, collective...

This is SO crazy to me in 2018! They really have no definitive answers as to why more Black babies die in the United States as compared to White babies. The part that is particularly mind-blowing to me is that the issue is NOT consistent with babies born in the United States from African immigrant mothers. I am quickly reminded of the Black woman's history in this country due to the Slave Trade atrocities. It is well known and documented that it was not uncommon for enslaved Black women to...

The topic of discussion in my son's Social Studies class had to do with creating the Constitution. In moving from the Articles of Confederation to the United States Constitution, the Northerners and Southerners had to come to an agreement on many topics. The 3/5 Compromise satisfied both parties: It stated that 5 enslaved people would be counted as the equivalent to 3 white people. This is a part of American history. I just wonder how it feels to be the only African-American in the class...