Dear Friends:
Someone once said "if you want to hide something from a Black person, put it in a book." We believe this is nonsense. At Community Healing Network, we are about smashing all the negative stereotypes of Black people. And one of the most damaging is the stereotype that Black people don't read. We know that there has been a phenomenal growth in Black book clubs--and that many Black people are voracious readers.
So we invite you to help build the movement for emancipation from the lie of Black inferiority by launching a Community Healing Reading Club during Community Healing Days, October 14, 15, and 16, 2011.
It's easy. Just invite a small group of family and friends to get together--and start reading and discussing books designed to deepen our collective understanding of the impact of our history on our emotions and our relationships. Here is CHN's list of must-read books for emotional emancipation and healing:
Brainwashed: Challenging the Myth of Black Inferiority
by Tom Burrell
What Mama Couldn't Tell Us About Love: Healing the Emotional Legacy of Racism by Celebrating Our Light by Brenda Lane Richardson and Dr. Brenda Wade
What's Love Got to Do With It: Understanding & Healing the Rift Between Black Men & Women by Donna L. Franklin
Black Pain: It Just Looks Like We're Not Hurting by Terrie M.Williams
Breaking the Chains of Psychological Slavery by Dr. Na'im Akbar
Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome Dr. Joy DeGruy
The celebration of Community Healing Days will not end on October 16. It will keep going through the efforts of the people who will establish local community healing circles. And it can keep going through your community healing reading club.
Let's keep the celebration going. Let's smash the stereotype about Black people as "non-readers" by reading books that will help us smash all the other negative stereotypes about Black people.
Defy the Lie! To register your Community Healing Reading Club, please email us at chnhealing@gmail.com.
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Put "time for healing" on your agenda. Mark your calendars now to celebrate Community Healing Days on October 14, 15, and 16, 2011. Visit www.communityhealingnet.org to say "yes" to Dr. Maya Angelou's call to Wear Sky Blue to show your support for the movement for emotional emancipation. And share this newsletter with your family and friends. Urge them to sign up to Wear Sky Blue too, and join us on Facebook and Twitter. Click Here for more information on what you can do to help build the movement.
Thank you.
Enola Aird, Jill Snyder, Dottie Green, Natalie Roche, Tarice Gray, Wizdom Powell Hammond, Sheila Warren, Ric Jennings, Gretchen Vaughn, and all your friends at Community Healing Network, Inc.
P.S. We need your help to make this the decade for the emotional emancipation of black people. CHN is a low-overhead, volunteer-run, 501(c) (3) grassroots organization. We are supported entirely by charitable donations. Your gift of any amount will help. Please donate today using the secure link below, or send a check to Community Healing Network, Inc., 111 Whalley Avenue, New Haven, CT 06511, Attention: Jill Snyder, Treasurer. Thanks again. | 
