The Work Is Never Done: Mental Health, Mass Incarceration, and African American Custodial Grandparen
By Frances Adomako, Ed.M (Counseling Psychology Doctoral Student, Howard University) Traditionally, African American grandparents have...
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donjacques
Aug 23, 20183 min read
Why We Need to Act Now to Address the Harmful Effects of Unemployment on Black Millennial Men
By Abigail Luke (Intern, APA Public Interest Government Relations Office) According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the unemployment...
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donjacques
May 4, 20185 min read
A Dream Deferred: Reflections on the 50th Anniversary of the Kerner Commission Report
By Lauren Walker (Graduate Intern, APA Office on Socioeconomic Status) March 2018 marked the 50th anniversary of the Kerner Commission...
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donjacques
Sep 27, 20175 min read
It Takes a Village to Raise a Child: Racial and Ethnic Socialization (RES) Beyond the Curriculum
This is the third in a series of blog posts that the American Psychological Association (APA) will publish regarding racial/ethnic...
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donjacques
Sep 7, 20172 min read
Charlottesville and Us
By Kumea Shorter-Gooden, PhD (Former Chief Diversity Officer, University of Maryland) I’m hoping we’ve reached an inflection point. I’m...
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donjacques
Jul 26, 20175 min read
“But Daddy, Why Was He Shot?”: How to Talk to Children about Race Today
This is the first in a series of blog posts that the American Psychological Association (APA) will publish regarding racial/ethnic...
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donjacques
Nov 16, 20163 min read
Historical Trauma in the Present: Why APA Cannot Remain Silent on the Dakota Access Pipeline
By Susan H. McDaniel, PhD (2016 APA President) Protesters being marked with numbers, put in dog kennels and shot with rubber bullets....
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donjacques
Aug 29, 20165 min read
We Need to Talk About How Race-Related Trauma Hurts Black and Brown Youth in Schools
By Dawn Henderson, PhD (Associate Professor, North Carolina A&T State University) and Alexis Lunford (Research Assistant) Witnessing or...
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donjacques
Jul 14, 20165 min read
Racial Trauma is Real: The Impact of Police Shootings on African Americans
By Erlanger A. Turner, PhD (Assistant Professor of Psychology, University of Houston-Downtown) & Jasmine Richardson Note: An...
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donjacques
Jul 12, 20164 min read
How to Talk to Our Kids about the Tragic Shootings in Louisiana, Minnesota and Dallas
By Robin Gurwitch, PhD Families around the country are coming together to talk about the officer-involved shootings in Louisiana,...
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donjacques
Apr 29, 20166 min read
Islamophobia in the U.S.: A Threat to Justice Everywhere
By Muninder Kaur Ahluwalia, PhD (Montclair State University) and Saba Rasheed Ali, PhD (University of Iowa) A Muslim mom, Melissa Chance...
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donjacques
Oct 1, 20156 min read
The Mad and Unhappy Place of Public Education for Black and Brown Children in the United States
By Dawn X. Henderson, PhD (Assistant Professor of Psychology, Winston-Salem State University) Some of the lines in the classic 1982...
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donjacques
Sep 29, 20153 min read
Poverty’s Impact on Short-Term Decision-Making, Street Harassment, Mass Incarceration and the
Welcome back to In Case You Missed It (our weekly roundup of articles touching on psychology, health, mental health and social justice...
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donjacques
Jul 1, 20156 min read
Supreme Court Rules on Housing, Marriage Equality, and Health Care, New Police Shooting Data –
It was an incredibly busy news week! In this week’s In Case You Missed It (our roundup of articles touching on psychology, health, mental...
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donjacques
Jun 22, 20153 min read
The Charleston Shooting and the Psychology of Hate, Looking Forward to Getting Older – In Case
In this week’s In Case You Missed It (our roundup of articles touching on psychology, health, mental health and social justice issues...
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donjacques
May 15, 20154 min read
In Case You Missed It – May 15, 2015 – Black girls matter, abuse of mentally ill prisoners, 40 years
In this week’s In Case You Missed It (a roundup of articles related to psychology, health, mental health and social justice collated from...
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donjacques
Apr 10, 20155 min read
In Case You Missed It – April 10, 2015
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donjacques
Apr 3, 20156 min read
In Case You Missed It – April 3, 2015
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donjacques
Mar 20, 20155 min read
In Case You Missed It – March 20, 2015
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donjacques
Mar 13, 20156 min read
In Case You Missed It – March 13, 2015
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