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Araya

@arayabaker

Therapist, columnist, social policy researcher | @hgse @penngse alum | @psychtoday @insidehighered @edu_post & more |

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Joined July 2016
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"My family never left the South for the Great Migration. I grew up 10 miles from a plantation. On one side of my family, I am one generation removed from sharecropping. One of my parents was the first generation not to grow up in the fields."
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🫧∞@soulfullysoNov 4
Millennials the most hated generation bc the brainwashing didn’t work on us lmao.
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i can feel the millennial optimism slowly reentering my body
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On this day in Black liberation history: November 3, 1969, marked the first Black Solidarity Day in New York City, an initiative founded by Panamanian-born activist, educator, and playwright Dr. Carlos E. Russell.
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Told y’all we’d be back.
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Democrats flipped Texas blue! What an historic night ✨ And kudos to the Barbara Jordan Public Policy Research and Survey Center at @TexasSouthern University—the #HBCU affiliated source that many political news outlets have cited with timely data about elections across Texas!
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1976 #BlackStudies syllabus from a class my mother took as a pre-med student at City College, CUNY. Nice to see her notes. She passed away last year. Happy to know she read. #EricWilliams Capitalism and Slavery 🇹🇹 #Maroon societies. The Caribbean and Brazil in conversation.
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“Are you done dragging us yet…or?” Full episode about 15 Signs Your Church Functions Like A Cult—my @PsychToday piece—on The Faith Community Virtual's YouTube.
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I’m completing a free African American history Yale course in my free time, if anyone cares. Here’s the link! oyc.yale.edu/african-america…
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Piye@sunbeltbluesOct 22
Howard University appreciation post.
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One of my most successful summer book events happened at @kindred_stories in Houston. So grateful! They’re carrying my recent novel Love is a Contact Sport (Black, queer, second chance, college reunion romance) and there may be signed copies in stock! kindredstorieshtx.com/produc…
Love Is a Contact Sport

Love Is a Contact Sport

After a rough breakup, gay romance author Renny Ross heads to the Bay Area for a fresh start. His new gig writing the anniversary story for a local university is supposed to be a fresh chapter...

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Starting my favorite book next week on AfAm Lit and the Environment next week! All Naylor everything! ⚡️
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jatella@jatellaOct 21
I think Jonathan Lyndon Chase and Devan Shimoyama (both Philly based 😮‍💨) are the black queer artist doing the most interesting thinking around the homoerotics of black masculinity and the contra-cardinal or cross-east regional (i.e., northern *and* southern) shape it takes.
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Emma Mae [a.k.a. Black Sister's Revenge] (1976) is a brilliant film made by the late Jamaa Fanaka. Shot on location in Watts, California, and with a cast of mostly non-professional actors; this film is a great example of vivid and independent filmmaking in the 1970s.
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I’m going through archival photos of my historically Black HS + HBCU + I’m moved to tears. Our ancestors fought so fiercely for our education. To see the faces of the women who helped make that possible, to know that I am living within the futures they envisioned… my goodness.
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My latest for @PsychToday. “I don’t want to burn down the church, but I don’t have a problem dismantling the aspects that are harming people,” Taylor told Christian Today.
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“The reason that we built this site is because I love the church and I love what the church can and should be. But what it is currently does not mirror that at all.” psychologytoday.com/us/blog/…
A New Database Outs Clergy With Sexual Abuse Allegations

A New Database Outs Clergy With Sexual Abuse Allegations

A new directory that archives sexual abuse allegations against churches can help make communities safer and support survivors who have been disbelieved.

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A Roy Ayers vibraphone solo to cleanse your palette
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That guy.@ShutabugSep 18
Happy Friday. ✨
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Rare 1967 footage showing how traditional drums in Ghana were used to send messages over short and long distances, and even perform traditional poetry.
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After beating prostate cancer twice, Montell Jordan has a message for Black men The ‘This Is How We Do It’ singer is being honored in Atlanta by A²CES for turning his cancer journey into a mission to promote early detection. uatl.com/entertainment/2026/…
R&B singer Montell Jordan honored for promoting cancer awareness

R&B singer Montell Jordan honored for promoting cancer awareness

R&B singer-turned-minister Montell Jordan is being recognized by A to A Community Events and Screenings for prostate cancer awareness at inaugural run and gala on Saturday.

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