By A. Rochaun Meadows-Fernandez8 minute Read
Trina Greene Brown has dedicated the entire month of August to resting. Like many other Black Americans, the last few months of continuous bad news has weighed heavily on her, from the disproportionate numbers of Black Americans dying from the coronavirus to the devastating shootings that continue to rock the country.
“For personal and professional sustainability and [to] ensure that I do not burn out, I am using the month of August for resting as a form of resistance,” she says.
Greene Brown is one of a growing number of Black Americans who seek to bring Black August—a monthlong celebration to honor the Black revolutionaries of the past—into the mainstream dialogue so that Black activists and parents can learn from its legacy. To celebrate the occasion, her organization, Parenting For Liberation (P4L), is providing virtual offerings to Black families to help aid in healing despite widespread racial trauma. Greene Brown believes…
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