Positioning New Students for Jegnaship by Answering the Spirit’s Call to Come Home

A woman in a colorful dress stands on stage, smiling, in front of a banner for The Association of Black Psychologists’ Annual International Convention. - PsychDiscouse

Attending an ABPsi convention is a unique family reunification ritual. For African Americans, the ratification of the 1865 Thirteenth Amendment is cited as the origin of Black Family Reunions. In 2024, I joined two different adopted family members, Trust Manzini (Tsonga) and Dr. Zethu Cataka (Xhosa), in their annual “Going Back to the Village” excursion. […]