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Trish Ahjel Roberts

Black Mental Health: History, Healing and Hope

Jun 01, 2026 06:00AM ● By Trish Ahjel Roberts

From generational trauma to groundbreaking healing, the conversation around Black mental health is changing. Meet the people leading the way—and those finding hope through it.

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40 Years ’til Springtime

Mar 01, 2026 06:00AM ● By Trish Ahjel Roberts

What if this age is your favorite age? A coming-of-wisdom story about trading Cinderella fantasies for deep roots, belly-led truth and a spring that never ends.

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Holiday 7.0

Dec 01, 2025 06:00AM ● By Trish Ahjel Roberts

Christmas, 1973. I was still the youngest in my family.

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African Healing Thrives in Atlanta

Jun 01, 2025 06:00AM ● By Trish Ahjel Roberts

For many people, African spirituality and religion exist only in mainstream visual arts like Whoopi Goldberg’s rendition of a medium in the 1990 film Ghost, Beyoncé’s 2016 visual album Lemonade and Chadwick Boseman’s portrayal of an African king in 2018’s blockbuster Black Panther.

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Two Decades of Freshness iwi fresh’s Legacy Continues

Apr 01, 2025 06:00AM ● By Trish Ahjel Roberts

In 2005, the late Yolanda Owens, affectionately known as “Yogi,” turned her passion for natural skincare into a company, iwi fresh, crafting natural products in her family kitchen with recipes she learned from her grandmother, Cosetta Blackmon.

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Self-Love Is a Game-Changer

Feb 01, 2025 06:00AM ● By Trish Ahjel Roberts

I was an early reader in a two-parent home with a live-in grandmother, two big sisters and a succession of pets. We had dogs, cats, birds, fish, hamsters and turtles.

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The Transformative Power of Gratitude

Nov 01, 2024 06:00AM

My mother was a homemaker, so every day when I came home from school, my mom and Mamma were there to greet me. Mom embroidered our initials on bath towels, sewed our clothes and created intricate needlepoints to grace the walls of our home.

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Natural and Do-It-Yourself Skincare for Healthy Melanated Skin

Jul 01, 2024 06:00AM ● By Trish Ahjel Roberts

Cleansing—Removing makeup, dirt and excess oils from the skin. Gentle cleansing is recommended so that the skin is not irritated by harsh treatment.

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Holistic Care for Black Skin

Jul 01, 2024 06:00AM ● By Trish Ahjel Roberts

While African Americans make up just three percent of board-certified dermatologists in the U.S., Atlanta is home to Black dermatologists, naturopathic doctors and estheticians who specialize in skincare for melanated skin. Four outstanding specialists share their knowledge here.

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Anger Is Not a Solution

Apr 01, 2024 06:00AM ● By Trish Ahjel Roberts

It was a sunny day in the spring of 1985, and I was furious. In the Brooklyn brownstone where I grew up, I searched my bedroom for something to throw. My eyes settled on a clear plastic bottle of lemon body oil.

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Three Black Holistic Healing Superstars Make the Rounds

Jun 01, 2023 06:00AM ● By Trish Ahjel Roberts

Have you ever visited a holistic doctor? Unlike traditional Western medicine, which seems to consider the body as a collection of parts, holistic medicine practitioners seek to heal the body, mind and spirit. In other words, they treat the whole person.

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The Road to Healing

Feb 01, 2021 08:30AM ● By Trish Ahjel Roberts

When we pretend white supremacy and institutional racism don’t exist, we continue to have uneducated and unhealed souls on both sides of this tragic legacy.

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