Author Event | Black Lives Are Beautiful: 50 Tools to Heal From Racialized Trauma and Promote Positive Racial Identity
When
Thursday June 19, 2025: 5:30pm to 7:00pm Add to Calendar / Add to Google Calendar
Where
Downtown Library: Multi-Purpose Room
Description
Join Dr. Charmeka Newton and discover her co-authored new workbook, Black Lives Are Beautiful, designed to help members of the Black community counter the impacts of racialized trauma while also cultivating self-esteem, building resilience, fostering community, and promoting Black empowerment. Dr. Newton will engage in a brief talk connected to this topic and there will be interactive stations present where you can try some of the tools discussed in their workbook.
About the book: Black Lives Are Beautiful is a workbook explicitly designed to help members of the Black community counter the impacts of racialized trauma while also cultivating self-esteem, building resilience, fostering community, and promoting Black empowerment. As readers explore each part of this workbook, they will develop tools to overcome the mental injuries that occur from living in a racialized society.
Dr. Charmeka Newton is a fully licensed psychologist and Clinical Assistant Professor and Director of the School Counseling Program in the College of Education & Human Development at the University of North Dakota. Dr. Newton is also the owner of Legacy Mental Health Services, PLLC. She has over 20 years of experience in clinical, academic, and community settings, including teaching experience at both undergraduate and graduate levels of higher education. Her areas of expertise include multicultural counseling, research methods, tests and measurement, career counseling, and clinical supervision of master’s-level counseling practitioners and students.
In addition to her clinical and teaching expertise, Dr. Newton is also a member of the Michigan Board of Psychology, appointed by Governor Gretchen Whitmer. She is a sought after psychology expert featured in prominent magazines and newscasts, recently featured on the June 2020 broadcast of West Michigan Woman, where she discussed how to have difficult conversations with your family about race. She is also co-author of the soon to be released book, Black Lives Are Beautiful: 50 Tools to Heal from Trauma and Promote Positive Racial Identity, published through Routledge, an imprint of Taylor & Francis Group, LLC., as well as co-author of the peer-reviewed article, “Culturally Adapted Cognitive Behavior Therapy as a Model to Address Internalized Racism Among African American Clients,” published in the April 2022 issue of the Journal of Mental Health Counseling. Dr. Newton was also recently appointed to serve on the Advocacy Coordinating Committee for the American Psychological Association where she hopes to advocate for positive mental health changes.
This event includes books for sale.
