Our panel will center Black women healing through ancient practices shared across generations. Because these practices are not critical components of the mainstream canon, they are not included in conventional sources, making it difficult to research. We will discuss ways Black people can access healing through nontraditional ways of researching and sources: storytelling; ritual; in the kitchen, table talk, cooking; church, prayer, prayer groups, prayer closets, ceremonial practices; and nature, the environment which includes gardening, outdoors, walking. Our goal is to offer Black people the possibility of an Afrocentric future that adopts these practices in consideration of Sankofa and nommo.
