A negative Covid test under any circumstances is cause for celebration but I was especially thrilled to see only a marked C strip on the test card after a week of Covid symptoms. It meant that I was clear to take a long-planned trip to Berlin as part of the…

Do We Need a Form of Couples Therapy to Achieve Racial Equity? — As a young psychologist facilitating couples therapy, I quickly learned that it was easy to become the enemy of one partner simply by agreeing with the other partner. …

I grew up living next door to a White family who daily flew a confederate flag on the side of their home that bordered our adjacent property. They also erected a barbed wire fence the length of our six-acre lot and placed no trespassing signs upon each post. Their three…

I am still a bit exasperated with Ellie McGinty. Ellie is a fictional character in The Daughters of Erietown, Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Connie Schultz’s novel about four generations of women in a working class family set over several decades. …

Getting to a New Season For Eradicating Racism — There’s a lot of repetition in 02/02/2022, this year’s Groundhog Day in the U.S. Although the origins are unclear, the tradition of the groundhog predicting the weather dates back to 1887. If the groundhog, Punxsutawney Phil, named after the city in Pennsylvania where Groundhog Day is annually celebrated on February…

The Cost of Doing Nothing About Race in the Workplace — The murder of George Floyd on May 25, 2020, opened floodgates to address systemic racism in all aspects of culture — policing, education, voting rights, healthcare, housing patterns, wealth creation, religious institutions, media representation, the arts, and organizational work life. Responses from non-profit organizations and corporations during this time of…

And Other Distressing Emotions Associated with Learning about Race and Racial Identity — Behind every discomfort, there’s learning… if we stay with the discomfort long enough. There is no other way to learn the skill sets necessary to manage the dynamics of human differences without challenging our assumptions and moving out of our comfort zones. Discomfort is a natural aspect of any learning…

The Psychology Behind the Anxiety and Why We Should All Care — Like many theories, CRT is complex and evolving, not only in its tenets but in its practical application. Its complexity and malleability make it easy to exploit its principles and turn it into a media sound bite that incites confusion, fear and division. As a theory, it’s easy for detractors…

Shaping a narrative for the suspect in Atlanta-area spa shootings shifts the focus from racial targeting and anti-Asian hate crimes to White exceptionality — When notifications that eight people were killed in an Atlanta-area spa shooting flashed across my newsfeed, I shared the collective horror of a nation. …