Despite the proclamation of a “postracial” society, racism in the United States remains “alive
and sick”(SP Harrell, 2000), negatively impacting the physical, psychological, and emotional …

This article explores the role the Black Church could play in facilitating spiritually sensitive,
culturally relevant and gender-specific services to address the mental health and well-being …

Using the theoretical scaffold of the relative deprivation theory, we present a commentary
that delineates:(a) the 4 stages of social movements (eg, emergence, coalescence …

Measurement of US American community members' perceptions of police historically has
failed to assess police bias, violence, and accountability in Black communities. Rooted in …

This introduction to the special issue will ground our understanding of the current state of
Black boys and men in America, nearly 2 years after the killing of Michael Brown in …

Trauma has unfortunately become an all-too familiar occurrence in the lives of children, with
a majority of youth experiencing a traumatic event before the age of 18. With the rise of …

Eliminating health disparities is our ethical and generational responsibility to protect and
promote the health of all Americans. However, we cannot effectively eliminate health …

This quantitative study examined authentic leadership and servant leadership traits as
measured via the Authentic Leadership Questionnaire (ALQ) and Servant Leadership …

This book examines how black women have identified challenges in major social institutions
across history and demonstrated adaptive leadership in mobilizing people to tackle those …

Immigration raids, used with increasing frequency in the United States in 2016, exemplify the
reach of immigration law enforcement into the lives of Latino community members. Yet little …