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An Interactive Community Experience

Regulate To Resist is a month-long series of virtual skills based workshops and radical conversations centered on building up the mental health crisis care skills of our communities across the world while uplifting our heritage of healing and power. 

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About

We are living in a time of escalating political stress, economic instability, and targeted harm toward Black, queer, and trans communities. The impact is not abstract — it lives in our bodies, families, and neighborhoods. Mental health crises are too often met with criminalization, misdiagnosis, overmedication, or police intervention instead of culturally grounded, community-based care.

Black Healing Remixed: Regulate to Resist is responding to the urgent needs of our communities.. Participants gain practical, non-carceral tools to support schizophrenia, suicidality, panic attacks, and psychiatric navigation while centering Black trans safety and diasporic solidarity.

Rather than asking communities to endure, this conference equips them to build safety webs, strengthen crisis response, and navigate systems with autonomy and power.

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What to Expect

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Free & Low Cost Tickets

Affordable options to ensure accessibility for all.

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Skills Based Workshops

Learn practical ways to support people experiencing anxiety, schizophrenia, and other mental health challenges.

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Self Led DJ Sessions!

Music and community vibes curated by us, for us.

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Care & Wellness Practices

Grounding and restoration practices rooted in diasporic healing traditions.

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Real Tools For Real Lives

Take-home resources and strategies you can use beyond the event.

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Exclusive Discounts on BEAM Merch

All attendees can get an exclusive discount on our entire BEAM store

Together, we honor Black wisdom, create space for joy and restoration, and resource our communities with tools to thrive.

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About BEAM

BEAM builds eco-systems of care for Black and exploited communities. We train, fund and resource alternative wellness and care systems through a network of therapists, healers, wellness practitioners and community leaders across the world.

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Sessions

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Regulate to Resist: Diasporic Healing as Resistance

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Regulate to Resist: Diasporic Healing as Resistance

When the world feels like it's closing in, healing isn't a luxury, rather it's a strategy. 

This panel brings together African healers and healers of African Descent to explore what it truly means to tend to ourselves and each other in times of rising global fascism. Drawing from ancestral wisdom and lived experience, our panelists will help us reconnect with the healing traditions that have carried Black people through history and will carry us into the future. You'll leave with grounding practices rooted in diasporic knowledge, a renewed sense of collective care as a political act, and tools to sustain yourself while creating the world you want

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Supporting People Living With Schizophrenia in Black Communities

Workshop

Supporting People Living With Schizophrenia in Black Communities

In Black communities, schizophrenia is one of the most misunderstood and stigmatized conditions. Too often, what someone needs is compassion and they receive fear, distance or silence instead. 

This workshop is an invitation to do better for our family, neighbors and community members who are living with schizophrenia and deserve to be met with greater understanding. You'll learn how schizophrenia actually shows up in Black communities, tools for navigating stigma in yourself and others and practical ways families and support networks can show up with more compassion and care.

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What Black Communities Should Know About Psychiatric Care

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What Black Communities Should Know About Psychiatric Care

The relationship between Black communities and psychiatric care is complicated. From the history of medical racism to present-day disparities in diagnosis and treatment, this conversation creates space to ask the hard questions, share valid concerns and explore what informed psychiatric care can look like.

You'll leave with historical context, practical frameworks for advocating for yourself or a loved one within these systems and a greater sense of agency over your own mental health journey.

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Fighting For The Mental Health of Black Trans Communities: What You Can Do Now

Workshop

Fighting For The Mental Health of Black Trans Communities: What You Can Do Now

Black trans communities are facing surmounting mental health crises, and the conditions driving them are not unavoidable. 

This conversation moves beyond awareness into action, exploring the specific ways each of us can show up as advocates, allies and architects of real safety. You'll leave with a clearer understanding of what Black trans people are navigating right now – across culture, community and policy – and concrete steps you can take within your own communities to help shift those conditions toward healing and belonging.

Schedule 2026

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Regulate to Resist: Diasporic Healing as Resistance

Tuesday, May 5th @ 11:30 AM 12:30pm PT | 2:30pm - 3:30pm ET

 

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Supporting People Living With Schizophrenia in Black Communities

Thursday, May 14th @ 3:30 pm 5:00 pm PT | 6:30 pm - 8:00pm ET

 

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What Black Communities Should Know About Psychiatric Care

Tuesday, May 19th @ 11:30 am - 12:30pm PT | 2:30pm - 3:30pm ET

 

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Fighting For The Mental Health of Black Trans Communities: What You Can Do Now

Thursday, May 21st @ 3:30 pm -  5:00 pm PT | 6:30 pm - 8:00pm ET

 

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Black Healing Remixed: 10 Year Anniversary Celebration

Sunday, May 31st @ 1:00PM - 5:00PM PT

 

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SPEAKERS

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Antonia Hylton
Guest Speaker

Antonia Hylton

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Antonia Hylton is a Peabody, Murrow, and two-time Emmy award-winning Anchor and Correspondent for MS NOW, and the New York Times bestselling author of MADNESS. She is also the cohost of the hit podcasts Southlake and Grapevine.

From 2016 to 2020, Antonia was a Correspondent and Producer for Vice Media and HBO’s nightly news and documentary show, Vice News Tonight. Since 2019, she has also served as an annual judge for the American Mosaic Journalism Prize.

Antonia graduated magna cum laude from Harvard University in 2015, where she received prizes for her writing and investigative research on race, mass incarceration, and the history of psychiatry.

She lives in Brooklyn, NY.

 

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Samanta Nyinawumuntu
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Samanta Nyinawumuntu (She/They)

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Sam describes themselves as a Black queer being who hails from the mountains of Rwanda. At their core, she is a daughter, a friend, and an artist guided by love, curiosity, creativity, and deep relational care. Professionally, they are a massage therapist, cultural worker, and the Founder and Executive Director of the Black Healing Centre. A Black-led, community-based organization dedicated to advancing culturally grounded mental health and wellness for Black communities in Canada. In this season of their life, her mission is to facilitate and co-create intentional healing spaces that center a healing justice framework for equity-deserving communities.

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Yolo Akili Robinson
Founder and Executive Director

Yolo Akili Robinson

Founder and Executive Director

BEAM

Yolo Akili Robinson is a nonbinary writer, healing justice worker, yogi, and the founder and executive director of Black Emotional and Mental Health Collective (BEAM). BEAM builds ecosystems of care for Black communities through Black-led training, grantmaking, and education using a healing justice framework. Under his leadership, BEAM has become a leading organization dedicated to mental health in Black communities. Yolo leads the development of community-based systems of care that provide Black mental health and wellness practitioners, families, and racial justice movements with healing tools, crisis support skills, and funding to cultivate wellness. BEAM has received support from the MacArthur Foundation, Blue Shield, and the Satterberg Foundation. In 2018, Yolo received the prestigious Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health Equity Award and, in 2023, he was recognized by U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy for Minority Mental Health Month. He was also featured in an “Empowerful Spotlight” at the 2020 BET Awards. Yolo has channeled his dedication to healing justice into radically reimagining care systems and building alternatives that support the wellness and liberation of Black communities.

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Allen E. Lipscomb
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Allen E. Lipscomb, PsyD, LCSW (he/him)

Supporting People Living With Schizophrenia in Black Communities | Workshop Zoom

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Allen E. Lipscomb, PsyD, LCSW is a Professor, Associate Chair and Director of Online and Offsite MSW Programs as well as Director of Minority Male Mentoring (M3) and Student Success Allies (SSA) program at California State University Northridge in the Department of Social Work. Dr. Lipscomb is a clinical psychologist with the highest degree earned and a Licensed Clinical Social Worker in the State of California. Dr. Lipscomb specializes in providing anti-oppressive, honoring-centered, and inclusive mental health services to individuals, children, youth, and families of color.

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Irka Mateo
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Irka Mateo (Akutu)

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Irka Mateo (Akutu) is a descendant of the Arawak/Taíno people from Kiskeya
(Dominican Republic) and a leading voice in Indigenous cultural reclamation. She is the
founder of Sacred Taíno Healing, where she teaches ancestral spirituality and
ceremonial music, bridging past and present to support personal and community
transformation. For over a decade, she led programs on Taíno culture at the Smithsonian
National Museum of the American Indian in New York City. Irka has conducted decades of research on the survival of Taíno spirituality and music, preserving Afro-Indigenous ceremonial songs in an archive she created, now housed at the National General Archive of the Dominican Republic. In recognition of her leadership and cultural and spiritual contributions, she was awarded Taíno Woman of the Year 2025–2026 by the Taíno Awards in New York City. Through her work, she fosters connection to ancestral memory, land, ceremony, and the ancestors, offering grounded guidance for healing, resilience, and community empowerment. 

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Kelechi Ubozoh

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Kelechi Ubozoh 

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Kelechi Ubozoh is a Nigerian-American writer, mental health advocate, liberatory coach, and psychiatric survivor with over a decade of experience in California’s mental health field. A former investigative reporter and the first student published in The New York Times, she now centers lived experience through advocacy and art. She co-authored We’ve Been Too Patient with LD Green, an anthology amplifying marginalized voices of lived experience who endured psychiatric mistreatment, now taught at major universities and available as an audiobook. A nationally recognized voice in mental health, Kelechi has appeared on CBS This Morning with Gayle King, ABC 7 News, C-SPAN, and is featured in O, The Oprah Magazine and Good Morning America for her work in suicide prevention and recovery. Her writing is featured in Disaster Justice Guidebook for People of Color with Disabilities, The Mad Studies Reader, Self-Care in Social Work, and Let Them Not Be Forgotten: The Carceral State, Forensic Psychology, and Black Resistance.

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Dr. Rupi Legha

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Dr. Rupi Legha

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Dr. Rupi Legha is a Harvard-trained, double board-certified child, adolescent, and adult psychiatrist, founder of AntiracistMD, and a nationally recognized speaker on racism and mental health. Her work exposes how systems meant to protect — schools, hospitals, child welfare — too often harm the families they serve, particularly Black, Brown, and Indigenous communities. Too often, the care is carceral. Her life's work is making it caring instead. She is the creator of the Protective Care Framework™ and the Antiracism in Mental Health Fellowship, a training program for healthcare providers rooted in historical reckoning and reparations in psychiatric practice. Her peer-reviewed work appears in Health Affairs and Pediatrics, and her Psychology Today series Protective Care gives communities the psychiatric literacy they deserve — and the tools to demand better care.

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Daroneshia Duncan Boyd

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Daroneshia Duncan -Boyd

Fighting For The Mental Health of Black Trans Communities: What You Can Do Now | Webinar 

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Mrs. Daroneshia Duncan-Boyd is an unapologetically Black, trans woman and Southerner and the Executive Director of TAKE Resource Center , trans, people of color-led organization, headquartered in Birmingham, Alabama. 

 Daroneshia served as the founder and Executive Director of Transgender Advocates Knowledgeable Empowering (TAKE) Resource Center, an advocacy, support, direct service and resource center for BLACK & BROWN trans and non-binary communities in Birmingham, Alabama.

Mrs.Duncan-Boyd has a deep commitment and passion for this work. As an out, trans woman, born and raised in Alabama, she has experienced physical and sexual violence, workplace and housing discrimination and the spiritual toll of exclusion from church and community. She remembers acutely what it was like to be honored for her advocacy even as she struggled with addiction and engaged in sex work simply to survive. Along the way, she gained smarts, savvy and a deep appreciation for the brilliance and resilience of trans people – especially black and brown trans women. She carries with her the memories of the many people she has lost to needless and preventable violence. Her work at TAKE is a reflection of her commitment to transform the intent behind the hashtags of #NotOneMore and #SayHerName into a set of impactful strategies, programs and resources that honor the lives of those that have been taken too soon, and creates pathways for, by and with those that are still here. 

Mrs. Duncan-Boyd vision for TAKE started as a Peer support Group in 2013! Daroneshia opened the doors to the physical location for TAKE in 2017. Since then, she has built a powerful leadership team of trans leaders. Together they have built one of the most impactful, trans-led organizations in the south. TAKE provides an array of services, including but not limited to: 

Programs that support trans and non-binary people to navigate and manage unemployment, incarceration and community re-entry, homelessness, HIV and AIDS, addiction, mental health issues and violence. Resources and services include a clothing boutique, peer support, access to food security.

Much of Mrs.Duncan-Boyd’s work centers trans women of color, however, her commitment, vision and heart are firmly grounded in and connected to the broader work of racial, gender, economic and LGBTQIA+ justice. 

Mrs.Duncan-Boyd’s leadership has been recognized and featured on HBO’s Wyatt Cenac’s Problem Areas. She has been honored as an “Alabama Champion of Pride.” She has been featured in The Advocate magazine, and recognized as one of the “Top 7 Inspiring LGBTQ Leaders in Alabama.”   

Chaun Lewis-Green

Chaun Lewis-Green

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Chaun Lewis-Green

Supporting People Living With Schizophrenia in Black Communities | Zoom Workshop 

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Chaun Lewis-Green is a passionate creator who enjoys helping people make complex strategies a bit more simple. During her 1700 hour service year with AmeriCorp, her affinity for passion-driven work evolved and opened the door for her eleven year career in Non-Profit. Chaun has been able to tackle program management, recruitment, admissions, selections and also strategic ideation and implementation. Above all else, she is most connected to the impact she has had through organizational leadership and her emotionally intelligent approach to management. Chaun is an intuitive facilitator and moderator that enjoys talking about the “hard” stuff that we all experience, but don’t often share. Chaun is dedicated to self-study and investigating the individualized journey of self-remembrance.

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Nadege Robertson

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Nadege Robertson 

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Nadège Bellande Robertson is a writer, musician, and transformative justice practitioner whose work is rooted in storytelling, emergent strategy, and collective liberation. As Executive Director of Fondation Espoir, she supports community networks in Ayiti and the diaspora through Lakou Tanama Healing Circles, co- creating courageous spaces that honor ancestral wisdom, address mental health, intergenerational trauma and foster an optimal psychological worldview. Ms. Robertson is the co-founder and vocalist of the musical group N’Didgenous, whose YouTube channel is 509 Healers. A certified energy healer and sound therapist, she weaves Afro-Caribbean Indigenous praxis into gatherings centered on spirituality, music, the arts, and peacemaking.

Nadège is a member of the Arawak Festival community in the Dominican Republic and United Maroon Indigenous Peoples, a global network advancing Indigenous solidarity and reparative justice. She is currently pursuing postgraduate study through Eastern Mennonite University’s Center for Justice and Peacebuilding Summer Institute. She holds a Master’s degree in Communication and Media, as well as undergraduate degrees in Political Science, Gender Studies, and Creative Writing. Born in Los Angeles to parents of Haitian and Jamaican descent, she has lived with her family in the mountains of Ayiti for over thirty years.co

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Imade Borha

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Imadé Nibokun 

What Black Communities Should Know About Psychiatric Care | Webinar

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Imadé Nibokun is a nationally recognized mental health advocate, nonprofit founder, and speaker addressing psychiatric racism, severe depression, and culturally grounded healing for Black communities. She is the founder of Depressed While Black, a 501(c)3 nonprofit that provides Black-affirming care items for psychiatric patients. Her organization has provided over 600 Black Beauty Supply Kits for psychiatric patients across the East Coast.

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Melissa Ifill

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Melissa Ifill 

Regulate to Resist: Diasporic Healing as Resistance | Webinar 

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Melissa Ifill, also known as Iya Oñi Soi, is the helper that helps you connect to your inner knowledge so that you can choose your wholeness. As a licensed therapist, Lucumi priestess of Oshun, and sacred transformation wellness coach, Melissa is able to bridge the gap between traditional healing practices and clinical understanding to provide effective coping tools and education on how your mind, body and spirit are impacted by painful experiences. With the understanding that healing is a forever journey, Melissa focuses her work on holistic and indigenous wellness practices as it is her belief that these centuries old tools best support us on this path. 

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Gabrielle Souza

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Gabrielle Souza

Fighting For The Mental Health of Black Trans Communities: What You Can Do Now | Webinar

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Gabrielle Souza is a leader committed to uplifting Black trans and queer communities. As Executive Director of The Okra Project, she has expanded the organization’s reach across housing stability, food access, mental health support, and financial assistance; ensuring that Black trans and queer individuals have access to the resources they need to thrive.

Under her leadership, The Okra Project has grown through strategic partnerships and a commitment to transparency, rebuilding trust while deepening its impact nationally. Gabrielle remains a steady force in advocacy and collaboration, driven by an unwavering commitment to justice, equity, and community empowerment.

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Charlie L’Strange

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Charlie L’Strange

Fighting For The Mental Health of Black Trans Communities: What You Can Do Now | Webinar

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Charlie L’Strange, a New York City native and starseed, is a dedicated Healing Justice Practitioner committed to transforming collective healing into a universal experience. As a certified Breath Work Practitioner, Reiki Master, and BEAM (Black Emotional and Mental Health) Heartspace Facilitator, Charlie creates sacred, welcoming spaces where individuals can shed their masks and reconnect with their divine spark.

With a trauma-informed, care-centered approach, Charlie’s work unlocks the body’s innate superpowers to heal, restore, and remember its natural capacity for wellness. Through group facilitation, Charlie turns healing into a revolutionary act—one breath, one heartbeat, one community at a time.

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Zami Tinashe Hyemingway

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Zami Tinashe Hyemingway

Fighting For The Mental Health of Black Trans Communities: What You Can Do Now | Webinar

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Zami Tinashe Hyemingway, also known as Ifawole Osunike Adeola, is the founder and CEO of Spiritus Wellness. Zami has a master’s in social work as well as a masters in arts and social transformation, with over 15 years in health promotion, program development and implementation, and coaching. Zami works on the organizational, communal and individual level. He supports organizations in increasing psychological safety within their organizational culture, supports communities in addressing  systemic barriers that lead to Care Apartheids, and he works with individuals on shifting their  inner narratives from one of deficit and scarcity, to one that leads them towards acceptance, celebration and their ability to thrive.

 

Zami began his career in community based organizations that supported members of the gender expansive communities, youth, underhoused individuals  and the re-entry communities. Zami is one of the founding staff members for Gender Health SF, which was the first program in the country to provide gender affirming surgeries via the health department and state health insurance.  He is also one of the cohosts for Social Determinants of health for Transgender and Non-binary communities, the first CDC sponsored YouTube series focused on advancing health for Transgender and Nonbinary populations.

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Tools for Care and Resistance

We’re uplifting practical, culturally rooted tools to help us regulate, support one another in crisis, and build collective power beyond harmful systems.

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Darkness RISING Presents

May 23

Darkness RISING Live: 9! Darkness RISING: Live Arts & Mental Health Block Party​​

Join us for Darkness RISING: LIVE 9, Raleigh’s high-energy block party celebrating wellness, the arts, and community! Each year, thousands gather for this unforgettable outdoor celebration filled with powerful performances, free resources, and JOY. The 2026 event is made possible by HealthLit4Wake.

Hosted by Darkness RISING, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit providing direct mental health resources and arts programming for justice-involved individuals and marginalized communities of color, Darkness RISING: Live is more than an event, it’s a movement rooted in collective care and celebration.

Come experience: ☀️ Live performances by NiiTO Band, Gene Hoskins & more! ☀️ Hosted by Royal Tea & Melissa Wade ☀️ K97.5 DJ Brian Dawson ☀️ Vendors ☀️ Food trucks ☀️ Community Health Fair ☀️ Wellness workshops ☀️ Line dancing / yoga / movement ☀️ Interactive art ☀️ Kids activities ☀️ Giveaways

Attendees: Expect big crowds, connection, community, and a good time!

Vendors: Engage with a large, community-centered audience and grow your visibility while supporting a powerful cause.

Date: Saturday, May 23, 2026

Time: 1pm – 5pm Location: 201 S Blount St, Raleigh, NC 27601, Moore Square, Downtown Raleigh

FREE Event RSVP: https://tinyurl.com/NCDRL9RSVP Volunteer: https://tinyurl.com/NCDRL9Volunteer Website: darknessrisingproject.org

Video excerpt: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QmcQrPgqo4g

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SELAH Grief Conference

May 2-3

The SELAH Grief Conference is a healing experience for individuals and families impacted by community violence and personal loss.

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SELAH Grief Conference [A Community Healing Gathering for Collective Loss]

Connection for Community Members. CEUs for Clinicians.

Grief in our communities is often carried quietly and without adequate space to process. The SELAH Grief Conference is a healing-centered gathering designed for individuals and families impacted by community violence, sudden loss, and personal grief.

Rooted in the SELAH Model of Grieving, this conference moves beyond the traditional linear “stages of grief” and instead honors grief as fluid, relational, and cyclical. The SELAH framework invites participants to move through three states:

Pause [ Attuning to the body and emotions]

Reflect [Honoring the story and surrendering safely]

Meaning [Creating connection, purpose, and responsible action]

Through a liberation-focused and culturally responsive lens, this conference centers Black and Latino traditions of healing, storytelling, spirituality, and communal care.

What to Expect

✨ Education on the SELAH Model of Grief

✨ Conversations around loss

✨ Storytelling and guided reflection circles

✨ Spiritual and ancestral grounding rituals

✨ Creative expression and art-based healing

✨ A Community Resource Village with trusted providers

✨ A SELAH Grief Kit to support continued healing

This is a community space.

It is a space to breathe.

A space to remember.

A space to be supported.

Whether you are navigating recent loss, carrying generational grief, or supporting others in your work, this gathering offers both emotional support and practical tools for sustainable healing.

You do not have to carry it alone.

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ERP Kaleidoscope Events

May 2 & 15

ERP Kaleidoscope: Free May Offerings

We’re hosting two free community offerings this May:

Perinatal & Postpartum OCD Support Group
A supportive space for connection, understanding, and community for those navigating perinatal and postpartum OCD.
May 2, 2026 | 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM EDT

BIPOC Advocacy Mixer
A space for connection, conversation, and advocacy among BIPOC clinicians and community members.
May 15, 2026 | 1:30 PM – 2:30 PM EDT

We would be grateful if you shared these offerings with your community.

Sign Up Here: https://erpkaleidoscope.com/events/

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The Gatekeepers Collective

May 17

The Gatekeepers Collective: Harlem Renaissance 2.0 Event

The Gatekeepers Collective will host a special Harlem Renaissance 2.0 event on Sunday, May 17, 2026 at 2:00 PM at Columbia University’s Forum, as part of Richard Pelzer’s HarlemxDESIGN programming.

This gathering will serve as both a closing ceremony for the current HR 2.0 banner installation and a preview of the next banner series, set to be unveiled during Pride Month in June.

Part of Learning to Love, TGC’s ongoing initiative, this project documents and uplifts five years of Black queer visual practice emerging from Harlem.

 

Learn More: Here

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Black Women DO Heal, Inc. Presents

May 8, June 5, Sept 4-5

Black Women DO Heal, Inc. presents the 4th Annual Show Yourself: A Healing Stories Tour

We’re kicking off our 2026 tour in New Orleans, Louisiana on Friday, May 8, 2026. Doors open at 6:30 PM CST.

This somatic, experience-based event features five BIPOC Community StoryTellHers sharing powerful stories of joy, resilience, and the courage to heal out loud.

Learn more, register, or explore vendor and sponsorship opportunities at: https://www.BlackWomenDOHeal.org

Can’t join us in New Orleans? Join us in another city:

  • Jackson, MS — Friday, June 5, 2026 at 6:30 PM CST
  • Houston, TX — September 4–5, 2026
    • StoryTellHers Event: September 4 at 6:30 PM CST
    • Collective Day of Rest: September 5 at 10:30 AM CST

Light refreshments and beverages will be served.

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Black Trans Travel Fund

May 19

Black Trans Travel Fund: Community Forum on Trans Healthcare

Black Trans Travel Fund, in collaboration with Arm The Dollz, is hosting an open forum on the state of trans healthcare on May 19.

This gathering will center community dialogue while offering healing resources, including cupping, acupuncture, and other restorative practices.

https://www.blacktranstravelfund.com/

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