Ruth King grew up in South Central, Los Angeles with seven siblings in a single-parent household. Her childhood was far from easy, and she was exposed to things that no child should have to experience, forcing Ruth to grow up at a young age. Fa

Identifying and Overcoming Trauma with Dr. Alisha Moreland-Capuia

Apr 18th, 2023 1h 12m

Dr. Alisha Moreland-Capuia knew her calling at just eight years old - she wanted to do something to help take-away, or reduce, suffering in this world. Growing up as a black girl in Oregon, a State with deeply racist roots, Dr. Alisha’s struggl

The Ones We've Been Waiting For with Alice Walker

Dec 21st, 2021 51m 58s

In the small community Alice grew up in, there was a road being built by convicts. There was also a spring near her house, so Alice's parents would give her and her siblings a pail and a dipper and tell them to provide water to those men. Many

The Devastating Effects of Racism On Mental Health with Dr. Ingrid Waldron

Dec 14th, 2021 58m 46s

Systemic racism might be hard to perceive without perspective. To our guest, Ingrid Waldron, growing up in Montreal in a multicultural environment, racism was being called the n-word at school or eventually suffering physical abuse for being Bl

Using the Courage to Be the Only One in The Room to Eliminate Racism

Oct 19th, 2021 53m 29s

The first step to heal from trauma is to acknowledge its impact; therefore, if we want to understand the effects of structural racism on Black women today, we need to look at the wounds produced by the intergenerational racism replicated since