This is a report about a study that was developed to address the oppression of young Black girls. It provides a clear example of how the activists, the advocates, and the adults in the Black Community can guide young Black girls and teach them to love themselves and each other through their own cultural background. You could even say that one of this study's purposes was to "keep in within the cultcha!" 🤣😜 Additionally, I believe that this will enhance awareness, as far as self-esteem and self-love amongst young women within the Black Community.

According to this website, “The purpose of the ‘Brothers of Ujima’ program is to take a strengths-based approach to Black male development by enhancing positive aspects of their selves and identities such as self-esteem, ethnic identity, pro-social behaviors, and positive development. Furthermore, the program seeks to reduce negative behaviors.” I believe that this will enhance awareness, as far as self-esteem and self-love amongst young men within the Black Community. PLUS, this is perfect because it’s directly linked to the information about “Sisters of Nia,” in the resource above!

This website provides another example of oppression and degrading in the Black Community (colorism) that is directly linked to low self-esteem and self-love. If you pay close enough attention, you will find examples from this site that showcase some reasons why self-love within my community is so important. That being said, my community needs your help moving forward from these issues. We need to diminish (or even demolish) things like colorism within the Black Community!

This website is all about practicing “emotional hygiene!" It provides general self-esteem building exercises, and I would recommend it for anyone in the Black Community who just wants to start out their emotional health regenerating process small, before getting into the emotional aspects of being a forever-oppressed race of people. **REMINDER: None of this website is specific to Black people -- it is strictly based on mental / emotional health for anyone and everyone)** For those of you who don't mind starting strong and diving into the bigger picture right away, this website can also be seen as a way to end with a bang! There are a few strategies listed that are not common within my community, so they may not be understood well enough in the beginning, which contributes to the reasons why it’s a great source to come back to in the end, once other important aspects have been made clear.

This website will help people in my community understand how to care for themselves, as far as mental and emotional health. It will also teach them some ways that they can support each other on a daily basis, while still holding themselves together. This is a prime example of keeping the love within the community. Why choose to love yourself or everyone else, when you can just do both?! 🤣🤷🏾‍♀️

This website advocates for Black men, in particular, to "Unlearn the hurt." You will understand exactly what this means once you browse through some of it on your own. This website also advises Black men to start loving themselves & each other more than they (hopefully) already do. Additionally, it provides a list of things Black men should do individually in order to better themselves. The biggest reason why this website is such an important resource for this particular cause is because it talks about how the system is against self-love within the Black Community, as well as how we need to fight against that, rather than just give in.

This website is a prime example that allows Black women to see that they are already ground-breaking world changers. My hope is that it will encourage them to constantly love and uplift themselves no matter what. Just like most of the previous websites, it's all about self-love within the Black Community. However, this website specifically caters to the recognition of the fact that Black women are revolutionizing self-love. So not only is it about self-love within the Black Community, but it's about self- love within a community of Black women. My other hope is that this website will remind Black women about the numerous role models we all have to look up to, dead or alive. We can and we should strive to be the ground-breaking world changers that we have the ability to be!