March 19, 2024

AROUND THE ABPsi

Highlights from the 2023 Annual Convention

The Association of Black Psychologists held it’s 54th Annual Convention in Detroit, Michigan with the theme, Homecoming: (Re) Claiming Our Divine African – Knowing, Being, Doing, and Belonging. The convention was filled with love, excitement, scholarship, and affirmation. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, this year’s convention was the first convention held in […]

COVID - 19 and Black Communities

From COVID Losses to Cultural Connection

By: Jonathan Mathias Lassiter, PhD | @lassiterhealth I grew up in a religious tradition that taught me that what the enemy meant for your bad, god will use for your good. This cultural wisdom has its roots beyond the Christian church in which I was reared and links to ancient African […]

Impact of COVID-19 on Black college students

By: Sherry D. Molock, Ph.D., Siobhonn Job, MA & Alana Rule, MA Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, George Washington University. The Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic disproportionately affects Black Americans in the United States (US), with Black people dying at a rate over two times higher than white people and […]

Pressure

Supreme Court Decision on Affirmative Action

By Dr. Thomas Parham I write on behalf of the national Association of Black Psychologists, Inc. (ABPsi), our President Dr. Donell Barnett, our Board of Directors, past presidents, and Council of Elders to strongly condemn and express profound disappointment and outrage at the latest Supreme Court decision striking down affirmative action […]

The Harm of Western Psychology (2022)

By: Joniesha Hickson and Evan Auguste For generations, African-descendant peoples have been forced to reckon with global delusions of our innate inferiority. Whether considered through the lens of a psychopathic racial personality, a suboptimal worldview, or an afro pessimism, our scholars have made it clear that the ideas responsible for […]

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Supreme Court Decision on Affirmative Action

By Dr. Thomas Parham I write on behalf of the national Association of Black Psychologists, Inc. (ABPsi), our President Dr. Donell Barnett, our Board of Directors, past presidents, and Council of Elders to strongly condemn and express profound disappointment and outrage at the latest Supreme Court decision striking down affirmative action […]

Social Media and COVID 19

By: Nina Ellis-Hervey Ph.D., L.P., N.C.S.P., L.S.S.P., C.P.C. | Owner & CEO at BeautifulBrwnBabyDol LLC As the world grapples with the ongoing pandemic, mental health has become increasingly important. Sure the internet offers a myriad of encouraging stories, motivation, social comfort, and a sense of belonging, but what’s on the […]

The ABPsi COVID Needs Assessment

By: Drs. Kathy Burlew and Suzanne Cunningham-Randolph The pandemic has adversely impacted the mental health of adults, couples, children, and families of Afrikan ancestry living in the United States in multiple ways.  Most significant is the exposure of structural and systemic racism, which is manifested in health, mental health, social, […]

The Harm of Western Psychology (2022)

By: Joniesha Hickson and Evan Auguste For generations, African-descendant peoples have been forced to reckon with global delusions of our innate inferiority. Whether considered through the lens of a psychopathic racial personality, a suboptimal worldview, or an afro pessimism, our scholars have made it clear that the ideas responsible for […]

Connected Strangers

By: Michele K. Lewis, Ph.D. | Professor, Psychological Sciences | Winston-Salem State University In this Fall 2022 semester, I have begun another semester of teaching African-Centered Black Psychology (ACBP) to HBCU undergrad students. We are 4 weeks in. We just completed our first module, which aimed to distinguish the definition […]