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By Nancy Marie Spears, Image: Nick Oxford for The Imprint , The Imprint, July 9, 2022 Amid a thunderous beating of red animal-skin drums and powerful song, survivors of Indian boarding schools met in southern Oklahoma this morning with the nation’s ranking official in charge of strengthening tribal self-determination in Indian Country and upholding the government’s treaty obligations to tribes. Hundreds of former students and their descendants had come to give testimony about the legacy of...

By Nathalie Jimenez, BBC, July 9, 2022 Katrinka Cox lives the American Dream: a green trimmed lawn, poolside lake view, and $1.3m villa she calls home. She is the only black homeowner in her gated Florida community. And despite her financial success, she says her attempts to buy another property are being blocked due to her skin colour. Black Americans are almost twice as likely to be denied a mortgage than their white counterparts, figures show. And only 44% of black Americans own homes,...

By Alisha Haridasani Gupta, Photo: Logan Lynette for The New York Times , The New York Times, July 7, 2022 For Cynthia Philips, it was the sound of bees, willows, crickets and the hum of a metallic Tibetan bowl that helped her overcome some of her anxieties. Over Memorial Day weekend, Ms. Philips, a 64-year-old entrepreneur, drove out to a Black-owned ranch in Crawfordville, Ga. where she joined dozens of other women for a camping trip. Tents were set up under large, majestic trees and...

By Eleanor Morgan, Illustration: Janice Chang/The Observer , The Guardian, July 10, 2022 B elieve in yourself. Be empowered. Show up. Love your body. Stand tall. How many times have you seen statements like these on social media? Or used to advertise products? All point towards confidence: a particular c-word that the modern woman cannot get away from. Being self-confident is the command of our time. At some point in the past decade, women’s media seemed to shift from celebrity mockery and...

By Lori Aratani, Image: the University of Arizona, The Washington Post, July 8, 2022 A growing number of cities are searching for strategies to offset the effects of higher temperatures on their communities. In the D.C. region, eight of the 10 hottest summers on record have occurred since 2010, according to The Washington Post’s Capital Weather Gang. Ladd Keith is an assistant professor of planning and sustainable-built environments at the University of Arizona’s College of Architecture,...

Join the RYSE Center and PACEs Connection on July 12. 2022 from 10 am-1 pm PT / 12 pm-3 pm CT / 1 pm-4 pm ET to examine how conventional social science research often produces and replicates unjust and harmful narratives about Black, Indigenous, Youth of Color (BIPOC) capacities, priorities, dreams, and needs. At the same time, research upholds and enables white, middle-class norms and values as the standard of achievement, success, and health. From the website: “RYSE works to reimagine,...

https://www.cnn.com/videos/us/...ate-brown-nr-vpx.cnn “…abuse at home…” “I grew up in a really painful and violent house…” “…having the people I was closest to be the ones who hurt me most.” “A bigger issue was love. I had a severe lack of love…” “I was raised— told I was worthless, told I was nothing and when you’re told you’re worthless you believe it.” "I was either going to shoot the mall food court or my school food court but the victims were actually incidental...It wasn’t really about...

Now hiring 2 Program Coordinators to offer training and consultation services The Traumatic Stress Institute already supports more than 85 organizational clients throughout North America with its Whole-System Change Model to Trauma-Informed Care, which includes the Risking Connection Training . Now TSI is adding two staff to support its increasing number of organizational clients. One of the two positions will assume primary responsibility for Intellectual and Developmental Disability (IDD)...

This is the first of multiple articles about heat, its impact on us, and what we can do to protect our communities. It’s hot, and it’s getting hotter. Last month in the United States, over half the population was under heat alerts . In the Southwest, the National Weather Service warned of a “dangerous and deadly heat wave” . No matter where you live in the world, data shows that global surface temperatures have increased year over year . In fact, the three hottest years on record all have...

It's the middle of the night. My Nokia cell phone vibrates me awake somewhere under the covers, and I manage to locate it just enough to hit silent. A few moments later, the vibrating is present again. This time I look to see that it's my brother in a time zone three hours behind me, but it will have to wait until tomorrow. I'm just too sleepy. The third round of vibration begins. "Alright, I better answer this"…. Me: "Hello?" Brother: "Mom's dead! Mom's dead!" (Heaving and sobbing). What...

By Danielle Friedman, Photo: Vanessa Leroy/The New York Times, The New York Times, July 7, 2022 When Cheng Xu was serving in the Canadian Armed Forces as a paratrooper and infantry officer, he experienced a series of traumatic events in rapid succession — his best friend and fellow officer took his own life, a soldier under his command was injured during a live fire exercise and a close friend’s father was kidnapped. He felt like the world was collapsing around him everywhere except at the...

By University of Toronto, Photo: Pixabay, Medical Xpress, July 7, 2022 Older adults who were physically abused as children were significantly more likely to develop chronic pain and chronic physical illness in later life according to a newly-released study by University of Toronto researchers. They were also twice as likely to develop depression and anxiety disorders compared to those without this early trauma. "Sadly, our findings suggest that the traumatic experience of childhood physical...