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The world is in mourning. We have lost friends, family, jobs, finances and our sense of normality to COVID-19. We are coming face to face with the pervasive effects of systematic racism in our society, and its terrible human toll. 2020 has not been “our year”...or perhaps it has, but just not in the way we expected it?

By Christine Norman Understanding the African American Experience for Culturally Competent Counseling One of the goals of the therapeutic experiences is to guide the client to healing or optimal living by helping to uncover the conscious and subconscious barriers to desired outcomes. Skillful clinicians achieve these o

By Laurie Allen God showed me why I self-implode today. He showed me why I slide down the mountain over and over again. And as God so cleverly orchestrates, he used this moment to help shine a light on current events and the #blacklivesmatter movement. It was unexpected and profound. I’m embarrassed to admit, as a whi

By Fope Adesina As a Nigerian whose parents migrated to Australia, my experience as a black child, then woman, meant that my family and I had to create spaces for our voices to be heard. This was despite the nation’s vocal lip-service to multiculturalism. I vaguely remember this ideal at loggerheads with the truth when

By Ebony D. Clement Every fiber of my being is resisting writing this blog. I have busied myself with meaningless tasks because I have a fear of the feelings that may come up and the words that may come out. But here I am again, willing to do the brave thing and put a vulnerable piece of my story out into the world, in

By Lynne Moses This is something I wrote after seeing the video’s doing its rounds on social media. I am an Indian female living in South Africa. I am a Christian. It saddens me to see all the posts from leaders only wanting to stand with the victim. Surely the perpetrators need help too? Something inside them causes t

Hi friends, So, in case any of you were wondering if I have been reading some of the comments on my social media platforms—I have. And I really would like to have an honest and open conversation with you guys. I won’t be able to respond to all comments (THERE ARE A LOT), but I do hear what you are saying. Some people

By Eliezer Ihejirika The last week has been marred by violence and conflict in ways none of us could have ever imagined… …or could we? I witnessed it in the tenth grade, when I was handcuffed at gunpoint by two police officers outside my school. The crime? I am black, so therefore I must have been part of a fight invol

By LaTanya Coleman-Carter Twitter: @HeyMrsCarter_ The world around me seems to be caving in. I am having stronger than normal emotional reactions to the racism that black people are experiencing. I know white people are needing instructions on what they should be doing. It appears that they are turning to their black

Right now, we are all dealing with a lot. The world is topsy-turvy, and life just seems so…out of whack. But what do you do if you are dealing with all this, and you are stick at home or in quarantine with someone who drives you nuts at the best of times? In this week’s blog and podcast, I speak with bestselling author

By Jay Leaf-Clark For everyone in the world right now, 2020 has become a living nightmare of calamity, isolation, and fear of the unknown. If you’re guessing I’m talking about the impact of Coronavirus, you’d be half-correct. However, for black people across the globe, the senseless killings, profiling, and injustices

Mental health is a hot topic these days, especially considering the current COVID-19 pandemic, and the enforced social separation and isolation many of us have experienced over the past several months. Even though things are starting to open in many places, we all are facing a world which is dramatically different to t