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stlamerican.com > online-features > health-and-wellness > election-anxiety-weighs-on-black-mental-health

Election anxiety weighs on Black mental health

19+ hour, 37+ min ago   (770+ words) With the midterm elections 2½ weeks away, and early voting already starting in some states, Black voters are heading to the polls with a familiar knot in their stomachs, worried that democracy itself — and their civil rights — is on the ballot....


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The Black Whisperers:

1+ day, 1+ hour ago   (110+ words) An Unlikely Story of Self-Appointed Competing Authorities There is an ongoing battle between two men who have appointed themselves authorities on Black people, their history … An Unlikely Story of Self-Appointed Competing Authorities There is an ongoing battle between two men…...


theelephant.info > analysis > 09/18/2026 > teaching-african-literature-in-a-small-american-town

Teaching African Literature in a Small American Town

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (704+ words) Kate Qiyu Chen is currently Assistant Professor in Africana Studies at Southern Illinois University Carbondale. She earned her dual-title PhD in Comparative Literature and African Studies from Pennsylvania State University in 2024. Her research interests include modern African literature, 20th-century African…...


psyche.co > ideas > black-men-suffer-racial-trauma-yet-are-seen-as-the-threat

Black men suffer racial trauma yet are seen as the threat

1+ day, 14+ hour ago   (516+ words) by Yamonte Cooper, professor of counselling is a professor of counselling at El Camino College in California and the author of Black Men and Racial Trauma (2024). His work examines racial trauma, Black men’s mental health, structural violence, clinical misrecognition, and…...


huffpost.com > entry > black-women-at-work-microaggressions-tone-policing-office_n_6acbc315e4b0942a61419e87

I Was The Black Woman In A Mostly White Office. Now I Fear White Liberals More Than Overt Racists.

1+ day, 19+ hour ago   (812+ words) True editorial freedom requires independent funding. In under a minute, you can start a monthly contribution that safeguards our work and keeps your reading experience clean. Thank you! The glass conference room looked out onto the parking lot, Lake Shore…...


mercurynews.com > 10/11/2026 > black-panthers-anniversary-women-behind-the-movement

Black Panthers’ 60th anniversary: What most people don’t know about the women behind the movement

3+ day, 12+ hour ago   (713+ words) For most of the last 60 years, the dominant media narrative about the Black Panther Party centered on young Black men in leather jackets, marching into the state capitol with rifles or getting into deadly gunfights with police. But as they…...


sfu.ca > dialogue > what-we-do > signature-events > jack-p-blaney > recipients > adrienne-maree-brown.html

Reimagining Social Justice and Racial Equity with adrienne maree brown

2+ day, 4+ hour ago   (200+ words) adrienne maree brown is a writer, podcaster, facilitator, abolitionist and movement mediator who inspires communities to move collectively towards liberation, solidarity and change. In March 2022, SFU's Morris J. Wosk Centre for Dialogue honoured adrienne maree brown with the 2022 Jack P. Blaney Award…...


vietnam.vn > en > phu-nu-dtts-gop-suc-xay-dung-cong-dong

Ethnic minority women contribute to community building.

2+ day, 10+ hour ago   (413+ words) Vietnam.vn Ethnic minority women contribute to community building. From maintaining security and order in La Ngau village, Dong Kho commune, to collecting recyclable waste to help disadvantaged students in Cham village, Tanh Linh commune, ethnic minority women are increasingly…...


emeraldbook.org > news > oct-1026-2

How Participating in the Black Economy Would Protect Black Women from Mass Layoffs

2+ day, 14+ hour ago   (723+ words) Over 600,000 Black women have been displaced from the labor market since early 2025. Here is the empirical mechanism by which building and participating in an independent Black economy would make those layoffs structurally impossible. The question isn't whether this will happen…...


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The Angry Black Woman:

2+ day, 15+ hour ago   (147+ words) A Self Portrait of Righteous Indignation I was excavating some of my old writing again recently when I came across a response I wrote in 2017 to a white man named Walt Turner … The Angry Black Woman: A Self Portrait of…...