Sharmaine D Barnes, LMFT, CEAP
"Trauma Specialist"
Until lions have their own historians, tales of the hunt shall always glorify the hunter
– African Proverb (Igbo, Nigeria)
Book Recommendations
This is the Fire: What I Say to My Friends About Racism by Don Lemon
Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome: America's Legacy of Enduring Injury & Healing by Dr. Joy Degruy
Breaking The Chains of Psychological Slavery by Na'im Akbar, Ph.D.
Know Thy Self by Na'im Akbar, Ph.D.
Breaking The Curse of Willie Lynch: The Science of Slave Psychology by Alvin Morrow
Black Minds Matter: Realizing the Brilliance, Dignity, and Morality of Black Males in Education by Dr. J. Luke Wood
No BS (Bad Stats): Black People Need People Who Believe in Black People Enough Not to Believe
Every Bad Thing They Hear about Black People by Ivory A. Toldson
White Fragility by Robin DiAngelo
How to Be an Anti-Racist by Ibram X. Kendi
The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander
Divided Sisters by Midge Wilson and Kathy Russell
The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
They Can't Kill Us All by Wesley Lowery
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
Fatal Invention by Dorothy Roberts
Locking Up Our Own by James Forman
The Miner's Canary by Lani Guiner and Gerald Torres
The Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon
Black Womens History of the United States by Daina Ramey Berry and Kali N. Gross
Me and White Supremacy by Layla Saad
Killing the Black Body by Dorothy E. Roberts
The History of White People by Nell Irvin Painter
The Collected Poetry of Nikki Giovanni by Nikki Giovanni
From Roots to Wings: Successful Parenting African American Style by Dr. James C Young
Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial
Times to the Present by Harriet A Washington