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Rev. Valerie Spencer is a healer, behavioral health therapist, cultural visionary, national community leader, and interfaith minister. The Holistic Empowerment Institute is her concept. She has been at the forefront of addressing behavioral health…

The Native Heritage project is an ongoing effort to document the Native American people as they obtained surnames and entered recorded history in the continental United States. https://nativeheritageproject.com

At least 15,000 of those nonwhites who were not allowed to be buried in the white church cemetery were buried instead in an area reserved for Africans that was excavated during construction. Only a few graves are visible in the memorial, and some of…

The movements of its free and enslaved residents, even when and where they could bury their dead, was highly regulated in an attempt to preclude insurrections.

This community existed in an area gutted by immanent domain when the city took the land…

Trans spiritual expression has evolved in the context of rapid ecological decline since the late 1800s. At times trans people have lived and worshipped near Native Americans. However, the cross-fertilization of their spiritual values was not seen as…

In Ecological Revolutions, Carolyn Merchant considers two major transformations in New England between 1600 and 1860.

European colonization ravaged indigenous societies and land across the entire continental masses of the Americas. Indigenous…

Slumming is the concept of people seeing 'how the other half lives.' ...[and] Heap sees four phases of slumming... The red light phase ran from the 1880s to WW1, which overlapped the bohemian phase during the 1910s and 1920s. The Negro phase, perhaps…

1. Decolonize Stories - Seek, learn, share and affirm the distinct histories of BIPOC communities; and unlearn dominant narratives

2. Develop a Power Analysis - Consider how each BIPOC community is differently situated in the racial hierarchy and…

“We must be solidarious, meaning one with everybody, with the care of the planet, and we must be willing to accompany people’s movements for their rights, justice, peace. And so I put my education and my experience and my commitment to that service.”…

Daitokuzan Johoji Temple is the official name of this sacred space. The name was changed after Nun Shibatani's predecessor passed on to her the responsibility for this temple. Accepting the mantle bequeathed to her, Nun Shibatani nicknamed the place,…