April 1, 2025

AROUND THE ABPsi

The New PsychDiscourse

By: Shareefah Al’ Uqdah, Ph.D, Psychdiscourse Editor In Chief Before and throughout Covid-19, ABPsi has held a special place for Black psychologists. Since our founding, ABPsi has created ways to galvanize and inform the community of unique issues relevant to Black people’s mental health. One way in which ABPsi communicated […]

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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 […]

Research Corner

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, […]

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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 […]