Association of Black Psychologists

05/30/2026

📣 TODAY IS THE DAY! 📣

Your health can’t wait. Join us TODAY at the Black Health Matters Community Health Fair for an afternoon of wellness, education, and fun for the entire family!

🩺 FREE Health Screenings
👩🏾‍🍳 Healthy Cooking Demonstrations
🎁 Giveaways & Community Resources
💚 Information to support your health at every stage of life

📍 Alice Deal Middle School
3815 Fort Drive NW, Washington, DC 20016
🕛 Today | 12 PM – 3 PM

Bring your family, invite a friend, and take a step toward a healthier future. We look forward to seeing you there!

05/30/2026

WHO ARE YOUR PEOPLE? 🌿✨

Our stories matter. Our names matter. Our ancestors matter.

Join us today for “Who Are Your People? Naming Your Ancestors with the 16Greats Project” featuring Ms. Adrienne Fikes, M.Ed., as we explore the power of genealogy, ancestral remembrance, and family history as pathways to healing, identity, and liberation.

For many people of African descent, displacement, erasure, and generational trauma have interrupted connections to lineage and ancestral memory. Yet our histories continue to carry wisdom, resilience, belonging, and healing.

This event is part of the DC ABPsi Ujima Healing Revolution, an ongoing initiative dedicated to collective healing, cultural reclamation, community wellness, and the restoration of African-centered ways of knowing and being.

Together, we will explore:
🌱 Ancestral connection and identity
🌱 Family history as a source of resilience
🌱 Intergenerational healing
🌱 Genealogy as a tool for liberation
🌱 Remembering as sacred work

📅 Today, May 30
⏰ 2:30 PM ET
💻 Virtual

🔗 Register: bit.ly/dcabpsi16greats

Because healing is not only about knowing where we are going—it is also about remembering where we come from.

05/29/2026

Black women deserve spaces where their humanity is protected, their softness is honored, and their truth is not silenced. 🌿

Misogynoir is more than a word.
It names the unique harm Black women experience at the intersection of racism and sexism—within systems, workplaces, relationships, institutions, and even within our own communities.

The cost can look like:
emotional exhaustion
hyper-independence
silencing ourselves to survive
carrying pain while being expected to remain “strong”

But healing requires naming the harm.

Join DC ABPsi for:

✨ Misogynoir: Navigating Oppression Within and Without ✨

Featuring:
Dr. Joniesha Hickson
Ms. Shakita Branch
Dr. Roddia Hill
Ms. Emily Milfort

🗓 May 29, 2026
⏰ 5 PM ET

Together, we will hold space for truth-telling, reflection, vulnerability, healing, collective care, and imagining healthier ways of being in community.

Because Black women deserve more than survival.
We deserve softness.
We deserve rest.
We deserve joy.
We deserve to be seen clearly.

🔗 Register:
bit.ly/dcabpsimisogynoir

05/28/2026

Understanding Project 2025 starts with collective dialogue and action.

Join the General Assembly Public Policy Committee Workgroup on Saturday, June 13, 2026, as we explore the potential impacts of Project 2025 on Black life, liberation, and the well-being of our people.

This is a space to read together, think critically, share perspectives, and help shape meaningful responses rooted in African-centered thought and collective responsibility.

Every skill set is needed.

🗓 Saturday, June 13, 2026
⏰ 12:00 PM – 1:30 PM EST
📍 Virtual via Zoom

Workgroup Interest Form & Reserve Your Zoom Seat
🔗 https://bit.ly/abpsiproject2025register

05/27/2026

🖤 SAWUBONA: We See You. We Honor You. We Are With You. 🖤

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There are moments when our communities need more than information. We need sacred space. We need witness. We need healing.

As Black people, we carry not only our individual struggles but the weight of generations navigating racism, violence, grief, and survival. For Black women in particular, the burden can be profound. Research shows that more than 40% of Black women experience intimate partner violence during their lifetime, and Black women are disproportionately impacted by intimate partner homicide (Verywell Mind, 2018).

In recent months, our communities have mourned the tragic loss of multiple Black women across the country, including cases connected to domestic and intimate partner violence. These losses remind us that healing, safety, accountability, and community care are not abstract concepts, they are urgent necessities (Capital B News, 2026).

The Sawubona Healing Circle is a culturally grounded space rooted in African wisdom, collective care, and Black Psychology. Here, we gather not to fix one another, but to see one another. To listen. To hold space. To remember that none of us are meant to carry our burdens alone.

✨ Sawubona means “I see you.”
✨ Your story matters.
✨ Your healing matters.
✨ Your life matters.

📅 Virtual Sawubona Healing Circle
🕖 Wednesdays | 7:00 PM ET
🔗 Register: bit.ly/shc2026

In the spirit of Ubuntu, we affirm:

“I am because we are.”

May we continue to create spaces where Black people can grieve, heal, reconnect, and reclaim our collective well-being.

05/25/2026

TODAY, Monday, May 25, 2026 @ 7:30 PM, EST

DC ABPsi invites you to join us for a powerful and transformative conversation:

Choosing To Be Chosen: Optimal Psychology in the Lived Tradition of Ma’at with Dr. Linda James Myers

🔗https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/GFL20OyNTpi6URZg0xLOxg #/registration

In a world that often leaves us overwhelmed, disconnected, anxious, exhausted, and spiritually depleted, this sacred dialogue calls us back to balance, consciousness, ancestral wisdom, and mental sovereignty.

Grounded in the ancient African tradition of Maat, Dr. Myers will explore pathways toward sustainable well-being, collective healing, joy, gratitude, and liberation in the face of ongoing dehumanization and social pathology.

This is more than a lecture.
It is an invitation to remember who we are.

Join us for as we reclaim healing through African-centered psychology, spirituality, and collective care.

✨ Rest. Joy. Consciousness. Liberation. ✨

05/19/2026

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Tomorrow, Wednesday, May 20 @ 7PM, EST, DC ABPsi & VA ABPsi invite Black/African-descended folx to join us for a virtual Sawubona Healing Circle — a space created to hold community, care, and healing for survivors navigating intimate partner violence, community violence, racial trauma, grief, stress, and the weight of these times.

“Sawubona” means I see you.

We gather in the spirit of collective healing, cultural affirmation, and community support, reminding one another that we do not have to carry these burdens alone.

This is a supportive and confidential virtual space where attendees are welcome to show up exactly as they are. Sharing is always voluntary.

🖤 Black-centered
🖤 Trauma-informed
🖤 Community-rooted
🖤 Virtual & confidential

Join us tomorrow:

🔗 https://bit.ly/shc2026

Please share with someone who may need community, grounding, or support right now.

BlackHealing

05/19/2026

📣NEWS ALERT Around ABPsi: The American Psychological Association has disbanded CEMRRAT, the Commission on Ethnic Minority Recruitment, Retention, and Training in Psychology, established in 1994 as the only APA program dedicated to growing the number of African/Black psychologists in the field.

This Psychology Today piece, co-written by ABPsi member Dr. Kevin Cokley alongside Dr. Germine Awad, speaks directly to where many of us find ourselves right now. The authors write that the move "calls into question APA's commitment to increasing the recruitment, retention, and training of psychologists of color," and they connect it directly to the position ABPsi has already taken on the record.

When ABPsi rejected APA's apology, we named it for what it was: "at best patronizing and at worst, an intentional act of obfuscation designed to mask the truth." Black psychologists still make up only 4 percent of the field. APA has now dismantled the very program built to address that gap.

This is why ABPsi exists. The well-being of our people will not be protected by institutions willing to abandon us the moment it becomes inconvenient. If you have stepped away, or who have been weighing a return, this is your invitation to come home. Reconnect with ABPsi, renew your membership, and join us at the upcoming convention. Our work continues, grounded in our own scholarship, our own community, and our own resistance, and you belong with us in it.

🔗 Read the full article by Dr. Germine Awad and Dr. Kevin Cokley:

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/black-psychology-matters/202604/american-psychological-associations-actions-speak-louder-than/amp

🌍 ABPsi.org

APA says it values diversity, yet it just dismantled its longest-running program dedicated to the recruitment and retention of ethnic minorities in psychology.

05/18/2026

On the state of Black Mental Health

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05/18/2026

Since 1968, The Association of Black Psychologists has remained committed to the well-being of our people through the advancement of African-centered psychology.

Become an ABPsi National Member today.

Access our network of providers, programs, and services rooted in our worldview.

🌍 Membership: abpsi.org/membership
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