Healing and Spirituality includes posts concerned about organized religions and all other forms  of spirituality. It also focuses on healers, and the trauma, PTSD and mental illness they are concerned about. Here you will also find posts that consider historical trauma, social trauma.

Hye-Kyong Kim

Korean Adoptee's Asian Identity Journey, Leads to Career as Trauma Healer

April Knutson

Former Leader of MN CP Continues to Build United Fronts

Roya Taylor

Indigenous Radio Host and Actor Begins Her Third Act

Brittany Lewis

Action Researcher Harvests Community Wisdom to Affect Public Policy and Heal Herself

Adriana Cerrillo

Elevates Immigrant Voices to Change Racist Policies

Philli Irvin (Steven Johnson)

How He Got to Now: The Creative Influences of a North Minneapolis Community Artist

Ricardo Levins Morales

Puerto Rican Social Justice Artist Organizes to Win

Filiberto Nolasco Gomez

Chicano Reporter from LA, Centers Marginalized Workers

Kenneth Holt 

For This Educator Black Lives Matter Is Not a Movement; It’s His Life

Louis Alemayehu

The Making of A Multicultural Spiritual Elder.

Irna Landrum

Black Queer Lefty From New Orleans Reclaims Nature, God and Politics

Mustafa Diriye

Somali Immigrant Found What Makes Home: Colleges, Coffee Shops and a Mosque

Lisa Albrecht

Lesbian Feminist Educator Still Learning, To Repair the World

Susana De Leon

From Torreón to Minneapolis: Immigration Attorney and Kalpulli Ketzal Coatlicue Dancer

Anna K. Binkovitz

Poet and MeToo Advocate, on the Politics of Consent.

Effie Lee

Born in Mississippi in 1937, Recruited by Tuskegee to Work Minneapolis Food Service

Mel Reeves (1957-2022)

Long-Time Organizer Against Police Brutality, Fights the Power