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Now more than ever, we need to create space for racial healing and strategies for resilience, especially this Black History Month.

In 1893, Ida B. Wells published an epic anti-lynching pamphlet drafted in collaboration with Frederick Douglass and others titled The Reason why the Colored American is Not in the World's Columbian Exposition [[link removed]] . In it, Douglass listed 22 things he wished to be true of America but were not, including “that the American Government was in reality a Government of the people, by the people and for the people, and for all the people.”

One hundred and twenty-eight years later, I – a Black woman – still wish these things to be true. My hope, strained across the trauma of the last four years, is the very reason my soul needs Black History Month this year.

One way I am regaining hope during Black History Month is by attending Advancement Project National Office’s first Black History Month event, Black Resilience in the Time of Bullsh*t [[link removed]] , on Thursday, February 4 from 6-8 p.m. ET. I hope you will join us on Thursday as well. Register for the event and learn:

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How
racialized
trauma
impacts
our
bodies
impact
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The
practices,
rituals
and
recipes
Black
bodies
have
used
to
survive
racialized
trauma
historically
and
contemporarily
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What
is
healing?
And
how
can
the
racial
justice
movement
center
healing?
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Where
else
might
we
engage
healing?
Who
else
might
we
engage
in
our
ecosystems
of
healing?

When I say that my soul needs Black History Month this year, what I mean is that I have an acute need to go back and remember who my people are. Not that I have forgotten, but I need to find solace in what they overcame. I need to regain strength by remembering what they accomplished against all odds. I need to regain some hope by gazing at the beauty their hands created.

The event, facilitated by Harriet’s Apothecary [[link removed]] - a collective of powerful Black healers, will be one you will not want to miss. Read the first blog [[link removed]] in our Black History Month series and tell us how you’re celebrating and healing on social media using #BlackHistoryHeals.

In solidarity,

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Jeralyn Cave
Senior Communications Associate
Advancement Project National Office



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